Wealthfront’s strategy lost 51.6% in the 2007–2009 bear market

In Wealthfront’s own backtests, its Advanced Indexing strategy lost more than 50% in the 2007-2009 bear market (Muscular Portfolios, Chapter 20, footnote 1410)

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BRIAN LIVINGSTON is a successful dot-com entrepreneur, author of Muscular Portfolios (2018, BenBella Books), and a contributor of scores of articles to MarketWatch, StockCharts, and AskWoody. He is also the author or coauthor of 11 books in the Windows Secrets series (1991–2007, Wiley), which has sold more than 2.5 million copies. From 1986 to 1991, he worked in New York City as assistant IT manager of UBS Securities; a consultant for Morgan Guaranty Trust (now JPMorgan Chase); and technology adviser for Lazard Ltd. He was the weekly Windows columnist for InfoWorld magazine from 1991 to 2003. During portions of that period, he was also a contributing editor of CNET, PC World, eWeek, PC/Computing, Datamation, and Windows magazine. In 2003, he founded the Windows Secrets Newsletter, which grew from zero to 400,000 email subscribers. He served as its editorial director until he sold WindowsSecrets.com in 2010. He is president emeritus of the Seattle regional chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII).