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title: "Top 20"
url: https://investbymodel.com/glossary/top-20/
description: "The service's 20 best long ideas in U.S. equities, benchmarked against the SP 500. Quoted from /Model/Top_20/ (Invest By Model, 2008-2011)."
published: 2026-08-10
updated: 2026-08-10
---

# Top 20

Published 2026-08-10

Model Portfolios

The Top 20 model represents our 20 best long ideas in U.S. equities The goal is to beat the broad market, as represented by the S&P 500. Names in the portfolio are diversified by sector.

Model record

$100,000.00 invested on 5/26/2008

Vs. S&P 500 Index

This portfolio is independently monitored by Hulbert Financial Digest, a Marketwatch Company.

In terms of style, this model is multicap and core. The holdings range from Small-Cap to Large-Cap. The holdings have both "Growth" and "Value" attributes.

This portfolio will be fully invested (10% maximum cash) at all times and uses no leverage. Position sizes will generally not exceed 10%. New additions will generally not be less than 3% of the portfolio. Tax-efficiency is not a primary goal of this model.

## Where this appeared

- [/Model/Top_20/](https://investbymodel.com/Model/Top_20/) — figures as printed on 5/7/2011
- [Letter T of the A–Z index](https://investbymodel.com/glossary/#letter-t)
- [All 27 terms](https://investbymodel.com/glossary/)

Quoted from [/Model/Top_20/](https://investbymodel.com/Model/Top_20/) as published between 2008 and 2011. [Return to the front page](https://investbymodel.com/)