Not exact matches
It's definitely more of a
tactical market, but our investment style in the fixed - income group is such that we're not going to be incredibly active in jerking our positions around — that is, we aren't much for
making daily or weekly shifts in our model
portfolio positions.
First, my usual disclosure: I run an asset - allocation
portfolio that is low cost, global and
made up of mostly passive indexes and other strategies; I also run a
tactical portfolio that serves behavioral purposes.
He is also an active participant in
making tactical calls in all of the
portfolios where the ISG team has been given discretion.
A prudent word of warning: this
portfolio promises to be volatile, so
make sure that you have stop losses in place or some other form of risk control, particularly in the 40 % of the
portfolio allocated to
tactical positions.
XTR isn't the only fund that
makes tactical shifts according to market conditions: the iShares Core
Portfolio Builders and Claymore CorePortfolios also do so.
Excellent presentation, Prof. Had a question: Once you've recognized that the market (or one of its subsets like dotcom stocks) are in bubble territory, what kind of
tactical moves can one
make, besides avoiding such stocks (like increasing cash in the
portfolio) & how does one go about doing so?
His point is that a TDF may invest its assets into index - based securities that do not
make tactical adjustments as the markets change — but the act of managing even an index - based
portfolio according to a glide path that ramps down equity risk over time will always be at least in part fundamentally «active.»
I task it to myself and you all, (we're smart enough), there is / must be some way to draw some «
tactical» conclusions, at least over the short term of how to outperform the basic passive
portfolio, after all, when was the last time any of us
made a substantial investment in Japan?
Most of the material in these courses begins with the false premise that indexing results in mediocre performance and then explains in effusive detail how
portfolio managers can do better by
making tactical moves, clever trades, shorting stocks, using derivatives and a host of other exotic techniques, many of which have long fallen out of use.