That dinner analogy sort of demonstrates what I'm talking
about with asset allocation.
Not exact matches
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I get at least a handful of emails every week from those either in retirement or approaching retirement
with questions
about how to structure their
asset allocation or what the correct withdrawal rate is for a portfolio.
Our
asset allocation is
about 48 % domestic stocks; 15 % international stocks; 20 % bonds; 12 % real estate and 5 % cash, and in general our risk tolerance is high
with combined annual income of
about $ 350k / yr.
With several decades until retirement you figure this
asset allocation seems
about right.
Discretionary managers in the UK are advisors to whom you hand over complete control of your investment portfolio including key
asset allocation decisions versus a financial advisor who must consult
with you
about significant changes and fund switches.
With this approach, you leave the rest of your money on track in your long - term strategic
asset allocation plan without having to worry
about tax consequences or rebalancing effects from changing back and forth between your «core» investments and your tactical ideas.
It is a balanced fund
with a somewhat conservative
asset allocation of
about 60 % invested in stocks and 40 % invested in bonds / short - term reserves.
The authors conducted 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations
with three different sets of assumptions
about stock and bond returns, equity risk premia as well as inflation rates, 121 lifetime
asset allocation glide paths, annual withdrawal rates of 4 % and 5 %, and time horizons of 20, 30 and 40 years.
By investing
with age - based portfolios, you leave the job of balancing the
asset allocation to the fund manager without having to worry
about it yourself.
Let's start
with asset allocation and your question
about whether it's appropriate.
The main inspiration for the tweaks comes from reading Rick Ferri's book All
About Asset Allocation — I finally found a book that laid out the main aspects of portfolio selection in a thorough way,
with enough graphs and correlation coefficients to satisfy my inner mathematics geek.
So if you've been procrastinating
about dumping your high - cost active funds, investing that idle cash, or adjusting your
asset allocation to keep it in line
with your goals, then now might be a good time to do that.
Asset allocation is all
about investing
with your head, not your heart.
In terms of how this relates to
asset allocation in retirement, if you are comfortable
with any given 5 year period being slightly below breakeven on a worst case basis, you could consider having
about 5 years» worth of expenses in more liquid and safe
assets and have comfort that the rest of your portfolio in stocks will at least hold their value pretty well.
There's nothing the matter
with doing it... but also no reason to slavishly worry
about small changes...» In other words: Rebalance if your
asset allocation is way out of line but don't worry
about small changes — especially if you'd end up paying a lot of fees by rebalancing.
@BobC go find out how many 10 - 15 % daily falls the market has ever had (very few) then factor in your
asset allocation with fixed interest and reits and you'll find the chance of losing 10 - 15 % in a day
with a properly built portfolio is
about 0 %.
With age, however,
asset allocations may shift toward safer investments such as bonds because retirement is getting closer and older investors should be more concerned
about keeping what they have saved and gained.
Using
asset allocation with mutual funds is just
about the only way to win these days.
I completely agree
about having the
asset allocation tool — I found it to be one of their most useful investing tools, along
with the ability to see what was required to rebalance your portfolio.
So, if the Buy - and - Holders got the fundamental question right, I think it makes sense to go
with what they say
about asset allocation and...
If you start investing early, pick a sensible
asset allocation with low - cost funds, save for big events in the next 10 years (wedding, down payment on a house, kids, vacations...), focus on having great credit, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don't care
about.
I would suggest he do some research
about asset allocation with particular regard to how much risk he's willing to handle.
«Whenever a number of people contact me
about the same subject I can be sure that many others are interested too,» Kirby begins, «My only quibble
with these portfolio ETFs is that the equity portion has a tiny
allocation to REITs (
about 1 %), no currency hedging on the equity side and of course no opportunity to customize and use other
assets such as GICs unless one wishes to do that separately.
They can «automate» their contributions
with small monthly commitments and not have to worry
about finer investment points like
asset allocation, which ETFs to buy or when to «rebalance.»
Most of them deal
with members
about to start retirement (what their
asset allocation should be, withdrawal rate for 20 or 30 years, etc.).
Rick Ferri, author of All
About Asset Allocation, argues that you get even better diversification by splitting international developed markets into Europe and Pacific components, which can easily be done
with the Vanguard Europe and Pacific mutual funds or ETFs.
My thought
with the bond
allocation is to put it on auto - pilot as much as possible, and focus my efforts on generating alpha in the risk
asset part of the portfolio.On a broader point, I think you are right
about offering this, because I think most people are looking for a «total solutions» provider.
For example, a concept I just recently thought
about was to achieve my overall
asset allocation goals by loading up my Roth IRA
with high growth funds (since never have to pay taxes on earnings) and put lower - growth
assets (e.g., bond funds) in my 401k.
From stocks to bonds to
asset allocation strategies, everything you read
about is explained from the perspective of a new investor so you don't get bogged down
with concepts and jargon you don't understand.
In general, I am most comfortable
with the
asset allocation / diversified / hedging model (I engage in some timing and in more esoteric investments in a small portion of my portfolio just to get the extra kick) as a core approach though, to be more systematic
about things.
Our mindful conclusions
about stock bond mixes are mostly consistent
with prominent authors addressing
asset allocation.
I'll agree
with CC — having been pretty keen on
asset allocation for a couple of years, at this point I don't worry so much
about the details.
MPT seeks to identify a portfolio
allocation designed to offer the highest potential reward
with the lowest amount of risk possible for any given level of risk, using broad diversification and historical data
about asset class price fluctuation for this purpose.
I completely agree
with your reservations and misgivings
about asset allocation models.
Another way to think
about asset allocation is to compare it
with a house.
We're left
with those dull platitudes the financial industry constantly reiterates: it's all
about prudent
asset allocation and geographical diversification.
Asset allocation can be looked at as an enormous board game
with about 25 buckets that hold money (each of the 25 buckets could contain several sub-buckets too).
Here's what I did
with the proceeds of the rollover, I invested
about half in funds in accord
with our family's
asset allocation, and I left the rest in cash.