While we can only hope the the credit crunch, financial markets crash, recession, and near depression of 2008 and 2009, is an aberation and not the new normal, it is instructive to look at a few data points to see what happened to the apparent asset
allocation percentages at certain points during this crisis.
It has been ASSUMED that the best thing to do is to stick with a single stock -
allocation percentage at all times.
Not exact matches
The generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes
at least 10
percentage points above Fidelity's recommended
allocation for their age is baby boomers, coming in
at 26 percent.
Houston ranged between 0.2 and 0.25, except for one year, while Dallas had the highest levels of inequality, hovering around 0.3 until the 2000 — 01 school year, when it experienced a dramatic drop in the level of inequality in the district, indicating that a greater
percentage of schools were funded
at or near the district's average
allocation per pupil.
However, in the
allocation of Title I funds among participating schools, LEAs may distinguish among CEP schools where the low - income student
percentage is capped
at 100 percent for school selection purposes.
Important decisions such as the
allocation of precious intervention resources and the designation of a
percentage of students as being
at risk are made based on the results of a screening process (Davis et al., 2007).
Once you've determined an asset
allocation that suits your risk tolerance — what
percentage of each type of investment you want to hold — you can look
at your accounts as a whole and see if you're matching your targets.
The beautiful feature of M1 Finance is that it lets you create a basket of ETFs and / or stock where you set the
allocations and it automatically buys everything
at those
percentages all for free.
Especially if you invest the same amount into each asset class on a recurring basis, it might be surprising to peek
at your portfolio and learn that your
allocation percentages are way off.
At a Terminal Value
percentage of zero, only the Likely Failure Rate and Almost Certain Failure Rate have high optimal fixed stock
allocations.
We will look
at portfolios
at least quarterly to see if any one asset is more than 5
percentage points off its neutral
allocation (called a «tolerance band»).
With Terminal Value
percentages of 50 % and 100 %, the optimal fixed stock
allocations remain
at 80 %.
Too many investors who claim to have fixed
percentage allocations fail to rebalance
at the exact times when it makes the most sense.
As you can see, this is a fluid
allocation but can be summarized as saying have
at least an equal amount of the three passive components up to a toal variable
percentage of my portfolio.
The way I look
at it if your contributions are a significant
percentage of your portfolio then you can count near - term future contributions as part of your current
allocation.
For those who were not
at an extreme value in either year, the range of their asset
allocation changes to equities ranged from a 2.0
percentage point decline
at the 25th percentile to a 14.3
percentage point increase
at the 75th percentile.
Determine how much money you can afford to invest each month and
at the end of the month buy shares in each ETF based on your asset
allocation percentages.
Looking
at what is a good fund
allocation for the eseries account, i've seen many allocating different
percentages to each can / us / and even to the global equities however they don't look so good
at this time.
So asset
allocation says you always keep your
allocation at a certain
percentage (perhaps adjusting for age) and as one asset class over performs you will sell some of it to buy the under performing asset class to get back to your expected ratios.
However if
at years end stocks are now considered 10 % over valued by those same metrics and your stock
allocation is now
at 55 % because of the returns then rather than adjusting back down to 50 % perhaps now you adjust your reasonable
allocation percentage down to 45 % to reflect to over-valuation that is inherent in the current valuation of the stock market.
A strategic asset
allocation would have had the same
percentage allocated to equities when they were selling
at historically expensive prices compared to earnings as when they were selling
at a fraction of those prices a few years later.