I limit my asset
allocation changes because it is genuinely difficult to time the market.
Not exact matches
During the period, the pools» holdings may have deviated from their target
allocations,
because of
changing market conditions.
It should be no surprise that many countries in the late stages of their own investment - growth «miracles» have tried this kind of transformation, but none has ever managed so radical a
change within its financial sector quickly enough, at least in part
because the capital
allocation decision is at the heart of distributional politics.
I'm not a fan of the Consensus funds
because the managers have a wide remit to
change the asset
allocation.
(d) the
change in reliability of the entitlement holder's water
allocations occurs
because of a
change (the relevant Plan
change) to the Basin Plan; and
«Addressing these concerns will be more difficult for the committee and the professional society,» Clark reflected, «
because standards for employment policies typically elicit sensitivities regarding resource
allocations and institutional
change.
This is a great
change,
because allocations are very important to labs, but sadly the procedure is no clearer than before.
For example, given the past year of poor stock performance and good bond performance, it's a poor time to
change the stock / bond
allocation in my portfolio from 80 % / 15 % to 75 % / 20 %
because that would mean «selling stocks low» and «buying bonds high.»
More importantly, these
allocations don't
change much over time,
because pension fund managers are less likely to chase performance and buy what's hot.
A:
Because the Motifs drift with
changing market prices, and we want investors adding new money to get the intended asset
allocations, we adjust the Motifs on roughly a quarterly basis.
You could just let them be overweighted,
change the
allocation weights, or let 5 % spill into the Mid-cap asset class by saying it holds some mid-cap growth stocks (
because they usually do).
This means that you do not
change your asset
allocation decision,
because of tax considerations.
This plan is fine, and I discussed this above, but then the 100 % equity
allocation is misleading
because the portfolio was affected and the retiree had to
change their retirement plans.
There has been a lot of
changes in my portfolio as of late and
because of this there has been a shift in my portfolio
allocation.
Simply as a function of their own success great companies may not be purchased for long stretches in time simply
because their valuation continues to rise after your initial purchase and that
change requires you to reset your
allocation periodically.
Where I don't agree is that indexing
changes capital
allocation to companies all that much,
because no cash gets allocated to or from companies as a result of being in an index.
«If an investor had determined that an asset
allocation was appropriate for their risk / return goals, we would caution against
changes in response to the yield environment
because generally that involves taking on greater risk,» says Todd Schlanger, senior investment strategist at Vanguard Investments Canada.
However, it is not a necessary thing
because the Valuation - Informed Indexer
changes his
allocation when it gets too out of whack in any event.
Because the glide path
changes the fund's asset
allocation, the fund may end up selling at lows and buying at highs.
That's a key question in the asset
allocation decision,
because investment objectives — which drive the asset
allocation decision —
change over one's lifetime.
These retirement models are «dynamic,»
because all you d do is input the year you plan to retire, choose one of the five Investment Risk Tolerance Categories, other life factors, and the asset
allocation mix comprised of the current mutual fund picks
changes.
But what if the investor
changes the target
allocation to better reflect the risk of the asset
because of the price
change?
Portfolio rebalancing might be required
because of a
change in asset prices or
because you desire to
change your target asset
allocation (reweighting).
They describe research showing that the quantity of ragweed pollen produced in doubled CO2 environments is increased significantly (61 percent), not
because of large increases in size (~ 10 percent) but rather (apparently) due to a
changing internal
allocation of resources.
We add emphasis to the phrase above
because it captures a significant
change from long - standing practice for
allocation of the scarce resources of civil legal assistance, which has been pungently, if a bit cynically, described as «first in, first out, until the money runs out.»
Before moving on to how this analysis can be used for pricing there is the obvious caveat: The
allocation of expenses between fixed and variable is an important exercise and not a simple one as some expenses will be seen as both fixed and variable — e.g. associates and staff salaries —
because they can't always move on a timely basis with
changes in revenue.