Sentences with phrase «average investment asset allocation»

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thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance, with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.

«If the agency had reached out to our investment professionals, it would have known the aggressive steps that Comptroller DiNapoli and CIO Vicki Fuller have taken to reduce hedge fund investments and limit fees, including lowering the hedge fund allocation to 2 percent of assets from 3 percent and paying below average fees.

The estimated Underlying Fund Expenses for each age - band of the Age - Based Investment Portfolio, each Target Risk Portfolio and the Multi-Fund Portfolio reflect the weighted average of the estimated Underlying Fund Expenses for each Underlying Fund in which the Investment Portfolios invest based on their respective target asset allocations.

4 For each Investment Option (with the exception of the Principal Plus Interest Option), the figures in this column are based on a weighted average of the expenses of each underlying Fund's expense ratio as reported in the applicable underlying Fund's most recent prospectus available prior to the date of this Supplement, in accordance with the Investment Option's asset allocation among its underlying Funds.

If you were an average investor and held the average asset allocation of 2004 to 2007 and had an investment policy to retain that asset allocation through periodic re-balancing, then you would have been a net buyer of equity assets as securities market values collapsed in 2008 and early 2009.

Depending upon your relative tolerance for investment risk compared to the «average investor,» these average percentages are instructive concerning what an average individual investor's asset allocation would be.

Because the average risk - averse investor holds the average portfolio asset allocation, this becomes a reference point in determining how a specific individual's investment portfolio asset allocation might diverge from that of the average investor's asset allocation.

The reason Investment Dollar Cost Averaging is so popular, is because it's a proven sales technique, most investors don't understand asset allocation, and so when they think of «the market,» they're only thinking about the U.S. stock market (S&P 500 type stocks).

In the moderate allocation category, childcare schemes such as HDFC Children's Gift Investment, LIC Nomura MF Children, Templeton India Children Gift Growth and UTI Children's Career Balanced function on the lines of balanced funds and have close to 60 % of asset allocation to equities.This category has offered average returns of 12.4 % in 10 years.