There was significant diversification until... the new
asset subclasses were crowded with institutional money seeking the same things as the original diversifiers.
Thus equating volatilities across a bunch of
asset subclasses, investing less in the volatile, and levering up the non-volatile, is hard to do.
Not exact matches
You can quickly compare your current
asset mix against your target, and even see the
subclasses within your
asset allocation.
You can further break down the above
asset classes into
subclasses, which also have different risks and potential returns.
Paragraph 2: First, rebalancing is almost always a good idea, but it presumes the
asset classes /
subclasses in question is high quality enough that it will mean - revert, and that your time horizon is long enough to benefit from the mean reversion when it happens.
Within the
asset class of U.S. stocks are also several
subclasses that provide opportunities for diversification.
Variants or
subclasses refer to more granular characteristics of the
asset class.
Because correlations fluctuate, defining what constitutes an
asset class and what constitutes a
subclass is subjective.
You can rebalance your investment allocation at three levels: stocks and bonds, between
asset classes and among
subclasses.