That means asset allocation funds would only earn interest income on their bonds.
Not exact matches
By the time you get to your 60s, most target date
funds are at or nearing their «glide path,» which
means your
asset allocation will be much more conservative.
This
means 80 % of your investments are kept to the plan of proper
asset allocation and buying index based
funds.
That
means that as your stock
funds increase in value relative to your bond
funds, a greater portion of your investment portfolio will be held in these riskier, more aggressive
assets — something that could throw off your
allocation and risk tolerance.
Balanced
fund provides a
means to achieve Proper
Asset Allocation and Regular Rebalancing requirements which most of the investors look for.
For me, that
means a thoughtful approach to tax - efficient index
funds and proper
asset allocation.
Using a target - date
fund in conjunction with other investments changes your
asset allocation and
means you're likely to take on too much or too little risk to meet your retirement savings goals.
It then
means you are selecting the
funds that go with that
asset allocation, and that you are rebalancing it yourself at least annually.
Every bank offering includes a family of
funds that are
meant to operate as a standalone portfolio, with a target
asset allocation and automatic rebalancing to that target, available to retail investors through the branch mutual
fund sales force.
Rebalancing is the technical
asset allocation term that basically
means this: At certain pre-defined intervals, you reshuffle
asset class (mutual
fund) amounts back to their original recommended
asset allocation weights.
This
means investors trying to use intelligent
asset allocation strategies to reduce risk, will have their efforts thwarted by mutual
fund managers buying too much of the types of stocks they shouldn't be.
Not using it as it is,
means you're going to change something (names of
asset classes used, mutual
funds used,
allocation weights, the number of
asset classes, input different returns based on different time frames, etc.).
Mutual
Funds are exactly that a plural word
meaning more than one mutual
fund and to be exact a «portfolio» of Mutual
Funds is the true
meaning when by all accounts there is some type of balance or
asset allocation.