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The Stress Room

The risk conversation, with receipts. Replay a mix through the storms clients actually remember — how far it fell, how long it took to get back. Funds younger than a storm ride a basket of sector stand-ins instead, and every modeled figure says so.

Real daily history back through 2007 · first run on a new mix takes a few seconds, then it’s instant

MixTry:60/40All QQQBallast mix
The Stress Room — this mix in past storms
The 2008 crisis

Lehman, the housing bust, and a 17-month bear — the deepest drawdown of the modern era.

-0.7% worst drawdownnot recovered in window

MODELED FROM SECTOR EXPOSURES — SOME FUNDS ARE YOUNGER THAN THIS STORM

The COVID crash

Thirty-three days from record high to bear market — the fastest crash ever recorded.

-0.4% worst drawdownrecovered 2020-06

MODELED FROM SECTOR EXPOSURES — SOME FUNDS ARE YOUNGER THAN THIS STORM

The 2022 rate shock

The Fed's fastest hiking cycle in four decades broke stocks and bonds at the same time.

-0.3% worst drawdownnot recovered in window

MODELED FROM SECTOR EXPOSURES — SOME FUNDS ARE YOUNGER THAN THIS STORM

PAST DRAWDOWNS DO NOT PREDICT FUTURE ONES — THEY CALIBRATE THE CONVERSATION

Sleeve by sleeve — worst drawdown in each storm
FundThe 2008 crisisThe COVID crashThe 2022 rate shock
IDRV iShares Self-Driving EV and Tech ETF-0.7%*-0.4%*-0.3%*

* MODELED FROM SECTOR EXPOSURES — THE FUND IS YOUNGER THAN THE STORM · CRYPTO AND OTHER POST-2020 ASSET CLASSES HAVE NO HONEST 2008 ANALOG AND SHOW A DASH

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