It would be fun to compare the two parties portfolios. Are there ideological companies which are helping/hurting the overall performance? One group is better at timing?

For example, Senator buys a stock, stock jumps and plateaus a week later, buy is reported a month later would mean don’t add this to ETF.

[1] https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/docume...

Now I have to decide if their hot tip hit or not. Was it a long term play? Does the committee decision get published in five weeks, so they wanted to move now?

I am sure there is signal worth exploiting, but an index fund still seems the more appropriate strategy without significant development on how to follow their moves.

Most of the returns for both are from $NVDA, which is up 172% YTD.

https://www.fa-mag.com/news/how-to-invest-like-members-of-co... Per this, KRUZ is lagging the S&P 500 YTD.

And in fact the case it makes is actually less convincing? "In total, 37 members of Congress beat the S&P 500 in 2023, according to stock and options data company Unusual Whales." 37 members of congress is a small subset.

Her recent returns are high, but they’re right up there with several other Republican and Democrat lawmakers: https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1742207287966777673

It’s even stranger that inception date of the $NANC ETF was after she announced she was stepping down as Democratic Party leader.

I guess the name triggers controversy, so the people pushing these products use whatever sells.

> when asked whether lawmakers and their spouses should be prohibited from trading stock while in Congress, Pelosi said, “No,” adding that “this is a free market.”

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-86...

It's also because her family profits disproportionately:

> Pelosi's husband, investor Paul Pelosi, frequently trades significant numbers of stocks. With her husband's assets considered, Pelosi ranks among the wealthiest members of Congress, an Insider analysis found.

https://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-free-market-economy-p...

Edit: It might just be better to buy a NASDAQ index fund. NANC expense ratio is 0.75%, double that of most index funds. Then again NANC doesn't have as much history.

It's not hard to be a sophisticated investor when your spouse is one of the decision-makers influencing major stock movements - a la CHIPS Act.

It would be naïve to believe spouses never discuss pending legislation that might financially benefit them both.

So sophisticated on its own doesn’t imply consistently outperforming the market. It does imply variance and thus windows where they will outperform the market even if they preform poorly long term.