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Is Your Cambridge Investment Research Portfolio Underperforming?
Cambridge Investment Research runs an advisor-led model, pairing a personal advisor with managed products that sit on top of an advisory fee.
Pure Benchmarks ranks real Cambridge Investment Research portfolios against thousands of other verified investor portfolios across nine standardized risk categories, from 100% equity to 90% fixed income. Every portfolio is recategorized daily from actual end-of-day holdings, and Community Nests shows exactly where your Cambridge Investment Research portfolio ranks against other real Cambridge Investment Research clients in the same risk category — built entirely from verified portfolio data, with no firm that manages money able to see any data point on the platform.
Why your Cambridge Investment Research portfolio can lag a pure index baseline
The full-service fee stack. Full-service advisory models layer an advisory fee on top of managed-product expense ratios and commission-driven product selection. Each layer is small on its own, but together they create a structural cost drag that compounds against a low-cost index baseline year after year.
What to review on a Cambridge Investment Research portfolio
- Check whether an advisory fee is charged on top of the expense ratios of the funds already inside the account.
- Look at how much of the portfolio sits in advisor-selected products versus a plain low-cost index baseline.
Illustrative 10-year comparison — a standard managed portfolio versus a pure index baseline. Figures are illustrative only.
| Year | Standard managed portfolio | Pure index baseline | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $105,200 | $107,000 | -$1,800 |
| Year 3 | $116,400 | $122,500 | -$6,100 |
| Year 5 | $128,700 | $140,300 | -$11,600 |
| Year 7 | $142,300 | $160,600 | -$18,300 |
| Year 10 | $165,100 | $196,700 | -$31,600 |
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This page is an information baseline for comparison only. It is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell, replace, or transfer any specific asset, account, or firm. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All figures shown are illustrative.