80-20 Investor Best of the Best Selection – March 2026 Update

In February, the BOTB selection continued where it left off in January, powering to new highs and outperforming its benchmarks. In January, the BOTB chalked up its best monthly performance since November 2020, but in February it surpassed that achievement. The fact that both the BOTB (the blue line) and its benchmark (the red line), which has the same asset mix as the BOTB but assumes the sector average performance for each asset class, outperformed the average professionally managed fund by such a margin, once again, demonstrates that the biggest driver of performance in February was the underlying asset mix. If you look at the latest 80-20 Investor heatmap, the biggest winners were Japanese equities, commodities and emerging market equities. With such a strong monthly performance, the long-term outperformance of the BOTB sits at an all-time high, as shown in the chart at the foot of this article.