Assuming that you will be retiring with about $ 1.0 million or more, how about putting $ 10000 (that is, 1 %) into
the Something Simple portfolio?
Not exact matches
This could either be for the novice investor who wants to get started investing with smaller balances and wants
something simple and prudent to help them get started at building wealth — or it could be for someone with a larger taxable
portfolio who wants to benefit from having an advisor without the associated fees as well as the Tax Loss Harvesting aspect.
On the one hand, they take
something that can be complex — like building a large - cap stock
portfolio one company at a time — and make it mindlessly
simple.
Although most investors diversified beyond this model and incorporated small caps, foreign stocks, high yield bonds, and perhaps
something more exotic like REITs or commodities, a
simple mix of 60 % S&P 500 and 40 % Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond is often the shorthand definition of a balanced
portfolio.
You liquidate your
portfolio if the market falls below say the 10 - month
simple moving average or
something (see, for example, A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation)?
This could either be for the novice investor who wants to get started investing with smaller balances and wants
something simple and prudent to help them get started at building wealth — or it could be for someone with a larger taxable
portfolio who wants to benefit from having an advisor without the associated fees as well as the Tax Loss Harvesting aspect.
Here is my original
Something Simple article along with Practicing for Retirement, which features the
portfolio.
I have a practice
portfolio (
Something Simple) that consists of two ETFs (Exchange Traded index Funds).
I am not that into stock markets or investing — I work full time and I want
something simple But perhaps with a little more work on my side, I'd fair better in the long run if I incorporated these ideas into my own
portfolio.
Relatively
simple portfolios like a 60/40
portfolio or
something like the Vanguard STAR fund, which Picerno cites, can do an admirable job of capturing the cross-section of capital market returns.
So the Model
Portfolios were created using an average of thousands of outcomes, to have
something similar that's static, easy, quick, and
simple to use.