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Is Your Fennel Portfolio Underperforming?
Fennel is a mobile brokerage designed around engagement, where activity levels can pull an account away from a patient index baseline.
Pure Benchmarks ranks real Fennel 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 Fennel portfolio ranks against other real Fennel 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 Fennel portfolio can lag a pure index baseline
The behavior tax. Commission-free apps are funded by payment for order flow and engineered for engagement. Frequent activity and emotion-driven turnover can erode returns versus a simple, patient index baseline — a cost that never shows up as a line item.
What to review on a Fennel portfolio
- Check whether frequent, emotion-driven activity has eroded returns against a patient index baseline.
- Look at how the account has tracked a simple diversified index across up and down markets.
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.