BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 16, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Sandy Steele Unlimited, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SSTU) has just released the updated track record for its money management division, The Siegel Group, based on its Chicken Stock(tm) Investment Strategy. This disciplined, yet simple approach to the Stock market is unveiled in Fred Siegel's best-selling book, Investing for Cowards. The strategy produced a portfolio increase of 83.6% from January 3, 2000 through December 30, 2005. During the same period of time the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 6.8%, the S&P 500 was off 15.0%, and Nasdaq lost 45.8%.
The model portfolio rose 8.9% in the fourth quarter of 2005 compared with a rise of 2.1% for the Dow Industrial Average, a 6.1% rise in the S&P 500 and a 2.1% increase in Nasdaq. Mr. Siegel stated that he is proud of the fact that his strategy showed such positive results during the worst overall stock market performance in the last 70 years.
"It is a conservative approach to stock market investing that allows people to sleep at night," Siegel said. "It is called the Chicken Stock Strategy because it works well for people who are otherwise 'chicken' or afraid of the market."
Siegel also pointed out that the strategy also performed well during the go-go years that marked the Bull Market of the 1990s, actually outperforming the major indices over the ten years from 1991 to 2001. "Of course, the 'acid test' came when the stock market bubble burst and major indices plummeted early in the new decade," Siegel noted.
Ms. Steele, CEO of Sandy Steele Unlimited, added that, "Investors who maintained a long term perspective found a place of financial refuge in the Chicken Stock philosophy. Their investment in the stock market went up while others were going down. This conservative investment approach is right in sync with products and services that SSTU markets to women which empower and improve their lives."
Siegel's company, The Siegel Group, is a Registered Investment Advisor, headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, managing and consulting on over $1 billion dollars of assets.
Sandy Steele Unlimited (SSTU) is an emerging Beverly Hills based conglomerate that owns and operates companies in the beauty/health, financial management and publishing industries (www.steeleunlimited.com).
The Siegel Group (www.thesiegelgroup.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SSTU, is an international money management company with offices in Beverly Hills, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Grammaton Press, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SSTU, headquartered in Davenport, Iowa is a publisher of non-fiction texts in genres such as financial planning, human rights, and world history (www.grammatonpress.com).
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