Week Ending 9/14/12 S&P 500, Asset Class & Sector Performance

****Notice the continued strength in gold & precious metals.  After lagging the hard assets for nearly two years the miners have started to surge.  How much have they surged?  On July 26th I sent a note to subscribers to my Allocation For Life newsletter and told them I was swapping out the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) in all of my models.  Since the swap GLD is up 9.68%, while GDX is up 25.69%!

Jon R. Orcutt, founder of Allocation For Life, is an asset allocation strategist and author of “Master the Markets with Mutual Funds: A Common Sense Guide To Investing Success”; Manager/Creator of the AFL Model Portfolios available for members of Allocation For Life in self-directed accounts at Folio Investing

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S&P 500 Index	1.99%
Asset Classes		Sectors
Domestic Large Cap Value	2.14%	Technology	2.11%
Domestic Mid Cap Value	2.60%	Consumer Discretionary	1.93%
Domestic Small Cap Value	3.05%	Financials	3.42%
Foreign Large Cap Value	3.83%	Telecom	1.96%
Foreign Small/Mid Value	3.65%	Industrials	2.43%
Domestic Large Cap Growth	1.88%	Utilities	0.62%
Domestic Mid Cap Growth	1.84%	Natural Resources	4.79%
Domestic Small Cap Growth	2.33%	Real Estate	1.55%
Foreign Large Cap Growth	3.03%	Health Care	0.63%
Diversified Emerg Markets	3.76%	Energy	3.82%
Gold & Precious Metals	6.75%	Consumer Staples	0.60%
Real Estate	1.55%
Broad-Basket Commodities	2.98%
Regions
Europe Stock	3.53%
China Region	4.18%
Japan Stock	3.86%
Latin America Stock	3.67%