I have read sales piece after sales piece promoting so
called asset allocation funds.
The hybrid fund can also be
called an asset allocation fund.
Not exact matches
In addition, the Master
Fund or an Investment
Fund may invest in these instruments pending
allocation of its
assets, and the Master
Fund will seek to retain cash or cash equivalents in sufficient amounts to satisfy capital
calls from Investment
Funds.
What I used in the past to determine the
asset allocation of our mutual
fund investments is a free total from Morningstar.com
called Instant X-Ray.
The new First
Asset funds use what's
called a barbell strategy, which involves holding equal amounts of short - term and long - term bonds, with no
allocation to intermediate maturities.
Juicy Excerpt # 27: Wade, as you may be aware, John Bogle has mentioned what he
calls tactical
asset allocation in his book, Common sense on Mutual
Funds (pg 66 - 67).
There's no definitive answer on what the optimal
asset allocation is, but you still can have a pretty good idea by taking a look at how the so -
called lifecycle
funds, or target - date
funds, invest their money based on a targeted retirement year.
Since it is possible to invest based on what John Bogle
calls the «low fee hypothesis», if you are paying hedge
fund style fees or even 1 % just for
assets allocation or stock picking you have a right to expect outperformance.
Funding a buy and hold
asset allocation with index
funds or index ETFs is
called a «passive management» strategy.
It uses only three stock
funds (plus one bond
fund if your
asset allocation calls for it) in an attempt to match the market's returns.
JtB uses only three stock - based mutual
funds (plus one bond
fund if your
asset allocation calls for it), can be set up in a matter of minutes, and requires attention just once a year for a quick portfolio re-
allocation.
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