It then means you are selecting the funds that
go with that asset allocation, and that you are rebalancing it yourself at least annually.
Not exact matches
What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term
asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always
going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance,
with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.
When you're just getting started investing, the amounts aren't so big: if you make a slight mistake
with asset allocation or fund choice, it's not really
going to matter.
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's Global Investment Committee (GIC), a group of seasoned investment professionals
with whom I meet regularly to review the economic and political environment and
asset allocation models for Wealth Management clients, believes deflation fears have
gone too far and have become too embedded in both investor psyches and market structures.
Markets
go up and down all the time, and your
asset allocation will passively do its job protecting and growing your money
with no hand - holding required.
With the correct
asset allocation, some of your stocks will
go up when others are
going down.
Jason explains what the conventional wisdom is
with retirement
asset allocation, and then
goes on to explain why it makes sense for his own financial planning to deviate from that.
One way to arrive at a portfolio mix that jibes
with your risk tolerance and financial needs is to
go to a tool like Vanguard's risk tolerance -
asset allocation questionnaire.
Anecdotal advice from various
asset -
allocation recommendation sources suggests avoiding the stock market unless you're
going to be invested for at least ~ 5 - 7 years, and even then you should probably be balancing your investment
with some money in bonds.
At the same time, though, you also have to wonder how anyone
with such a stock - heavy
asset allocation felt when the market
went on its recent white - knuckle rollercoaster ride.
To understand what this means, let's
go back to the basic
asset allocation decision that all investment begins
with.
But as even he has discovered, many of these investors may still need some help or guidance in choosing ETFs, settling on an appropriate
asset allocation, rebalancing or even
with financial issues that
go well beyond managing investment portfolios — more holistic challenges like tax - efficient withdrawal strategies, insurance and estate planning, debt management and the like.
So
going with the managed portfolio that is closer to your desired
asset allocation might be a good choice if you are just getting started.
@BobC
go find out how many 10 - 15 % daily falls the market has ever had (very few) then factor in your
asset allocation with fixed interest and reits and you'll find the chance of losing 10 - 15 % in a day
with a properly built portfolio is about 0 %.
If you
go to this risk tolerance -
asset allocation questionnaire and answer the 11 questions, you will come away
with a suggested mix of stock and bond funds that should jibe
with your risk tolerance and financial needs.
This looks like a reasonable plan although
with super low interest rates in the US right now, I just keep most of my emergency fund in cash and I also have an
allocation to bonds within my
asset allocation that I could always tap into in case things
go really haywire.
For example, if you're
going to use the
Asset Allocation Software to run an investment asset allocation report, College Planning Calculator to show what's needed to send kids to college, Life Insurance Need Analysis to see how much life insurance they really need, and an overall financial plan showing what their financial future / retirement (using RP, or either version of RWR) will look like before and after your brilliant recommendations, you'd use these four modules, combined with the Cash Flow Projector (
Asset Allocation Software to run an investment asset allocation report, College Planning Calculator to show what's needed to send kids to college, Life Insurance Need Analysis to see how much life insurance they really need, and an overall financial plan showing what their financial future / retirement (using RP, or either version of RWR) will look like before and after your brilliant recommendations, you'd use these four modules, combined with the Cash Flow Projec
Allocation Software to run an investment
asset allocation report, College Planning Calculator to show what's needed to send kids to college, Life Insurance Need Analysis to see how much life insurance they really need, and an overall financial plan showing what their financial future / retirement (using RP, or either version of RWR) will look like before and after your brilliant recommendations, you'd use these four modules, combined with the Cash Flow Projector (
asset allocation report, College Planning Calculator to show what's needed to send kids to college, Life Insurance Need Analysis to see how much life insurance they really need, and an overall financial plan showing what their financial future / retirement (using RP, or either version of RWR) will look like before and after your brilliant recommendations, you'd use these four modules, combined with the Cash Flow Projec
allocation report, College Planning Calculator to show what's needed to send kids to college, Life Insurance Need Analysis to see how much life insurance they really need, and an overall financial plan showing what their financial future / retirement (using RP, or either version of RWR) will look like before and after your brilliant recommendations, you'd use these four modules, combined
with the Cash Flow Projector (CFP).
With some companies, sales agents will encourage you to sell your overweighted
assets and buy underweighted
assets as this generates brokerage commissions for them, but when you only need to make minor adjustments, you can simply change the
allocation of the new money
going into your account until you are back to your target weights.
So, if the Buy - and - Holders got the fundamental question right, I think it makes sense to
go with what they say about
asset allocation and...
Trying to figure them out can
go a long way toward understanding loss aversion and coming up
with the optimal
asset allocation for an individual.
A little moderation
goes a long way, know your
asset allocation and make sure it's consistent
with your risk tolerance.
If investors can combine savvy
asset allocation with an awareness of credit
assets» behaviour when rates rise, then they may be able to add value even when the
going looks tough and the temptation might otherwise be to sell.
Employing such investment types can
go hand in hand
with a more simplified in - retirement portfolio strategy: Because broad - market index funds provide undiluted exposure to a given
asset class (a U.S. equity index fund won't be holding cash or bonds, for example), a retiree can readily keep track of the portfolio's
asset allocation mix and employ rebalancing to help keep it on track and shake off cash for living expenses.
Asset mix depends on the person, but Wheaton has many 40 - something clients
with 80 % -20 %
allocations to stocks and bonds — and even has some who have
gone all in on equities.
I'm trying to build my first portfolio, I've already have set out my monetary goals, graded my risk tolerance and determined the
asset allocation I wanted to
go with.
Which is the point, which is why you should just
go all the way
with that, by using
asset allocation, and not market timing
with ETFs.
So for the moment, it still looks like mutual funds are still the way to
go with sane, rational, normal buy and hold investors practicing boring
asset allocation techniques.
You're probably
going to pay a little more in taxes
with asset allocation, because you're probably
going to be making more income and profits.
With asset valuations at record highs, it's easy for investors for decide they're
going to move to cash, or change their
asset allocations to something more conservative.