It will be a candidate for rebalancing if the stock or
bond portion grows to 55 percent or falls to 45 percent.
Not exact matches
With the equity
portion likely to
grow over time and the
bond portion comparatively static, this means such investors become much more exposed to equities as they get older.
Instead, by funding an annuity with only a
portion of your savings and investing the rest in a diversified portfolio of stock and
bond mutual funds for growth potential, you can reap the advantages of an annuity (income you won't outlive no matter what's going on in the financial markets) while still having the remainder of your nest egg invested so it remains accessible yet can
grow over the long term.
Ideally, you should commit only a
portion of your retirement savings to an annuity and keep the rest in other types of investments, such as stocks and
bonds that can
grow over time and protect you from inflation.
If then you pull the government's stocks out and make them all your stocks, while replacing the government's share of the portfolio with all
bonds, then your tax bill on withdrawal will be lower (the government's
portion will
grow less), but your money in the portfolio will be riskier.