Not exact matches
For that reason, leveraged investing
tends to be more appropriate for younger people as opposed to those
nearing retirement.
As
retirement age
nears, investment portfolios
tend to skew toward more conservative investments, like bonds and money market funds, to better safeguard the nest egg.
In general, your portfolio should
tend towards equity investments in the early years and then gravitate more towards fixed income investments as you
near retirement.
For this reason, I
tend to keep my investment funds in
retirement accounts set at
near 100 % equities.
To find anyone at a middle or senior level in the office at or
near normal
retirement age
tends to be quite unusual indeed.
For younger folks, they have more working years, so they
tend to have a higher earning potential loss when passing early as compared to their older counterparts who are
nearing retirement.