Core Alpha Research · Nº 002 · Model Portfolio Ledger HYPOTHETICAL
An append-only record of a hypothetical portfolio.
Core Alpha Research — a hypothetical Model Portfolio. This is the Core Alpha strategy: the
high-turnover, opportunistic momentum book built for tax-advantaged accounts. The flagship
Structural Alpha book — diversified, low-turnover, tax-managed — is the taxable-account
strategy. This is a hypothetical backtest of one model portfolio, marked daily — not a client
account and not an executed order.
Hypothetical Model Portfolio — backtested; research only, not investment advice.
The model is the Unconstrained Core Alpha Strategy — a long-only, fully-invested cross-sectional momentum
rotation (unbiased, no factor tilt; a tax-efficient Tax-Managed Core Strategy is the offline-validated taxable
companion) — marked daily net of cost, vs
buy-and-hold VT (global) and VTI (US) on the same total-return basis. Append-only:
history is never recomputed. The full curve is a hypothetical backtest — the strategy
applied retroactively to historical data, not actual trading and not any client account.