Not exact matches
Fees are
extremely important to take into consideration when evaluating options for retirement, because the effects are compounded over a
long time horizon, and high fees and costs can cause serious harm to your retirement savings.
My retirement accounts are more like a 50 - 50 split between stocks and bonds, because of a
longer time horizon and because yields on bonds are
extremely unattractive right now.
For instance, an investor with a
long time horizon (say, someone who is 25 years old and just opening a brokerage account for the first
time) can be
extremely aggressive, owning far more stocks than bonds.