However, what is perhaps more concerning is how target date funds performed during
the big equity bear markets.
Not exact matches
But having lived through two
big bear markets in the last 15 years, elderly investors can hardly be blamed for regarding
equities with caution.
A lot of money is also paid to «professionals» who skim huge salaries and benefits to put money to work with hedge funds and private
equity funds, most of which will be wiped out in the next
big bear market.
If you want to ensure you get the
big returns from stocks that investment writers highlight when urging you to invest in
equities, you need to buy during
bear markets to make up for the lousy returns from those years when you buy at what proves to be the top of a bull
market.
The conventional approach of decreasing your
equity allocation in retirement is meant to protect you from
big bear markets.
The liquid - alt pitch is that individuals can access the same types of investments as university endowments and other
big institutions, to diversify
equity - heavy portfolios, typically with a 10 % to 20 % allocation to liquid alts... The advantage of the [AQR Managed Futures] strategy -LSB-...] is that it is uncorrelated with other asset classes, and «has the most consistently strong performance in
equity bear markets.»
In some
bear markets a broadly diversified, globally diversified portfolio protects investors against huge losses, like 2000 - 2002, but most
big bear markets are more like 2007 - 2009 when almost all
equity asset classes fell.