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Investor maintains high-beta portfolio, adds to S&P 500 on dips, hedges with utility and mental health stocks.

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05 Jun 2026
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Stephen Tobin, an experienced investor, maintains a high-beta, long-only portfolio focused on small-cap emerging tech stocks aiming to outperform the S&P 500 by 300%. Despite short-term inflation and rising yields, he views inflation as a driver for higher corporate earnings and continues to add to S&P 500 positions during market dips. To manage risks, he is rotating out of cyclical tech stocks into utility disruptors and mental health providers, hedging against structural unemployment. His disciplined strategy involves buying on technical oversold signals with minimal trading, aiming to compound gains during market pullbacks.

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