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MarketWatch used to only visit lazy portfolios every once and a while (it was hard to justify looking at “lazy” portfolios that performed well when you could point out far sexier returns on sub-prime mortgages!) but with the recent financial woes, Paul Farrell had been checking on them more often. It looks like they’ve turned it into a section on the Marketwatch site and the lazy portfolios aren’t performing very well ^[3] (not surprising but better than their benchmark, the S&P 500!).

The new Lazy Portfolio center tracks eight lazy portolios:

• Aronson Family Taxable
• Fundadvice Ultimate Buy & Hold
• Dr. Bernstein’s Smart Money
• Coffeehouse
• Yale U’s Unconventional
• Dr. Bernstein’s No Brainer
• Margaritaville
• Second Grader’s Starter

For those who aren’t familiar with Lazy Portfolios, they’re allocations of popular index funds. I did a whole writeup on some popular lazy portfolios ^[4] including Scott Burns’ Couch Potato portfolio and Margaritaville portfolio.