Similarly, adding a 10 % listed property
allocation to the equity portion of a 60 % S&P / NZX 50 and 40 % S&P / NZX Composite Investment Grade Bond Index portfolio resulted in a further reduction in volatility and higher risk - adjusted return over the trailing five - year period.
If stocks experienced a large drawdown of 30 % to 90 %, I would shift more and more of
the allocation to the equity portion.
Not exact matches
Bottom line: Whatever your normal
allocation is, add 10 %
to the fixed income
portion, equally at the expense of your cash and
equity allocations (5 % each).
This means your asset
allocation on the remaining
portion of your investment portfolio needs
to change or else you might have too much of your net worth exposed
to equities.
In addition, sovereign wealth funds — which generally diversify their portfolios
to include a small
portion of alternate assets such as gold, private
equity and real estate — are likely
to raise their
allocations following the low yield in government bonds over the last couple of years.
Personally, I don't like much exposure
to resources and Canadian
equities are 20 % of my
allocation, so I prefer
to buy stocks directly for that
portion (realizing that I could potentially trail the index).
At the outset, when the target date is many years away, each fund's asset
allocation tends
to be more aggressive, with a larger
portion of the holdings in
equities.
Given the current low interest rate environment and the seemingly unchecked momentum in common
equities since last March, investors may want
to consider parking some
portion of their
allocation in high yielding vehicles in the event the market takes a breather.
Therefore, for market participants seeking
to harness these inflationary trends, carving out a
portion of an
equity allocation for global natural resource stocks may warrant consideration.
2) Would you advise me
to go for MIP with debt:
equity allocation at 80:20 so the
equity portion can aid the annual hike in fees?
Once you've filled out your
allocation to core stock funds, continue on
to the more aggressive
portion of your
equity portfolio.
If you feel you are very near
to your goal you can rebalance it by increasing the debt
portion and decreasing the
equity allocation so that you are not exposed more
to market risk while achieving your goal.
«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.
So, an element of my policy is
to revisit my target stock
allocation when we have another severe bear market, with a drop of 30 - 40 % in the
equity portion of my portfolio, which is 60 % U.S. stocks, 40 % international stocks, and is tilted
to small - value.
Maintain a deviation range; for instance, if the
equity portion in your portfolio rises significantly due
to a bullish scenario, sell some units and invest it in debt
to maintain the desired asset
allocation.
Composition: The Intelligent Asset Allocator Portfolio uses only Short Term US bonds
to compose the bond
portion of an
allocation while splits up the
equity portion across 7 asset classes.
If I do decide
to add commodities it won't be for more than a 5 %
allocation and it will come from the
equity portion of my portfolio.
I'll assume that you have devised an asset
allocation that is suitable for you and want
to invest in the S&P 500 index for the US
equity portion of your portfolio.