X-Message-Number: 6062 Newsgroups: sci.cryonics From: (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Patient Care Costs and Alcor Investments Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 06:21:09 GMT Message-ID: <> References: <4kft9e$> > Also, remember that we want that Patient Care Fund to *grow* relative >to expenses, not just remain the same. We want to fund reanimation Right. So the right strategy, as I see it is to calculate the worst ever loss from the speculative investments (index funds, for example, or international funds) in history, increase it by a fair margin and figure that the worst that could happen to the speculative portion is it could suffer that loss. Then apportion so that the speculative portion, after loss, plus the guranteed, conservative portion, is enough to maintain the PCF plus start growing it more slowly. Ie. so you figure that if you get the worst loss in history, you still have enough to maintain the patient fund, but otherwise, you grow. -- Brad Templeton, publisher, ClariNet Communications Corp. The net's #1 E-Newspaper (1,300,000 paid sbscrbrs.) http://www.clari.net/brad/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6062