Once you've settled on your asset allocation, you need to consider your so -
called asset location: Which investments should you hold in your retirement accounts and which in your taxable account?
Not exact matches
Portfolio 1 — which we'll
call the «tax -
location portfolio» — places all of the large - cap stocks in the individual account, all of the REITs in the IRA, and all of the emerging market
assets in the Roth IRA.
Called «
asset location for tax efficiency, this also saved the clients thousands of dollars annually.