Seems to me if you have a good asset
allocation plan then you don't need to make many (any?)
Not exact matches
Start by creating your own personal investment
plan and
then use it to tweak the
allocations in the graphic.
Jason explains what the conventional wisdom is with retirement asset
allocation, and
then goes on to explain why it makes sense for his own financial
planning to deviate from that.
The
plan is to screen firms based on «valuation, profitability, stability, management capital
allocation actions, and... near term appreciation potential,»
then assess their valuations based on price - to - earnings, price - to - cash flows, and price - to - book ratios, and compares these ratios with others in the relevant investing universe.
In talking with investors, they discuss it as a substitute for a large - cap value investment; so if your asset
allocation plan is 20 % LCV,
then you could profitably invest up to 20 % of your portfolio in Gargoyle.
A recent article by academic Wade Pfau and financial planner Michael Kitces in The Journal of Financial
Planning suggests you can increase the odds of sustaining your nest egg by starting with an unusually high fixed - income
allocation when you retire, and
then gradually lowering it as you get through the danger zone.
If your
planned retirement date is far away (say 25 years)
then the fund will have a more aggressive asset
allocation with a higher proportion of stocks compared to bonds.
If you
plan to work a side hustle or drop to part - time upon «early retirement,»
then the 100 percent stock
allocation makes sense.
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.
I would consider all the retirement accounts as one big portfolio, develop an overall
plan and asset
allocation,
then buy specific funds in each account according to that master
plan.
Plans typically begin with a majority of funds in stocks,
then shrink the
allocation over time and add more bonds.
«So should I stick with a 65 % fixed income, 35 % equity
allocation until age 60, and
then when the defined benefit pension
plan payments of $ 17,000 annually kick in, should I switch to a riskier portfolio with more equity?
You will
then be surprised at how much caution the models will indicate, and hopefully those who can will save more, run safer asset
allocations, and
plan to withdraw less over time.
I even created a debt payment / savings (investing)
allocation plan that put more money toward debt at first,
then switched it near the end to invest more.
In order to understand what
allocation is best for you, you must first learn about different assets,
plan out an
allocation for your needs, and
then make sure you rebalance your portfolio every year or so to make sure your
allocation still fits your needs.
I don't recall if you mention if you will be reducing the equity
allocations as the kids get closer to post-secondary, but I suppose if you
plan to shift towards cash and bonds,
then those could certainly be held as ETFs?
If you don't perform the free 401k
allocation or mini-retirement
plan teaser, and you don't offer anything else of value (like convincing them you're a super-star money manager),
then most seminar attendees will have little reason to come into your office.
In order to properly use Monte Carlo in retirement
planning, dozens to hundreds of inputs need to change to reach a Real World probability number: Life expectancy, age of retirement, investment payouts, yields vs. share selling, investment returns, inflation, income goals, Social Security, all of the types of taxes, pension payouts, annual cash flow surpluses and deficits, random earned incomes, replacing vehicles every ten years,
allocation mix changes over time; and
then duplicate all of that for every investment individually,
then for the spouse,
then account for all of that compounding in every year, and the list goes on and on.
In addition, target - date funds (TDFs), which have become an increasingly popular DC
plan QDIA in recent years, start out with greater equity holdings and
then automatically reduce equity
allocations as participants near retirement.
And
then in the 1970s and»80s, as interest rates shot up, it wreaked havoc on the portfolios of many sophisticated institutional investors like pension
plans and insurance companies who were extremely exposed in their
allocations towards bonds, which did not keep up with the rising rates of inflation in the»70s and»80s.
Premiums are
then invested in three funds, Equity Fund, Bond Fund and Money Market Fund according to the Automatic Asset
Allocation Strategy which depends on the
plan option selected.
He
then provided an agenda that covered all the points such as parenting and visitation
plan, division of assets,
allocation of debts, support, etc..