I read a good article recently on how to construct an Ivy League fund using exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The original article was for American investors. Here’s how British readers can do the same thing.
But why would you want an Ivy League style fund?
Well, the endowment funds of Ivy League universities like Yale and Harvard have historically achieved excellent returns, with less volatility than an index tracker.
Their success is partly because of special opportunities we can’t easily replicate, such as access to good hedge funds.
But they’ve also done well because of asset allocation, which we can copy with ETFs.
