A friend scrolled the marketplace top to bottom, stopped at the 58 pct card, and asked why anyone would pick anything lower.
Because the 58 pct card digs a 25 pct hole. Scroll one notch down the pure-equity list and you hit a card that nearly matches the return crowd while keeping the shallowest drawdown on the whole equity shelf. It gives up the headline number. It keeps the floor under your feet.
5Y CAGR . backtest
40.85pct
Forty names. Equal weight. The large and mid universe, no microcaps in the tail. Almost the return of the riskier cards above it, with a floor a fifth shallower. The side-by-side that proves it is on the next card.