However, many investors may not have considered the additional
importance of asset location — that is, in what types of accounts each of their investments should be held.
And of course, this time horizon and this asset allocation gets mixed in with your tax planning as well in the
sense of asset location.
Focused and alert at all times with the
knowledge of assets location and logistics, and who is performing maintenance, towing, and performed detailed tracking of personnel.
Ben Felix is to be commended for including a run with lower brackets (which, TLDR, also found a much lower benefit to optimizing vs. just keeping a balanced portfolio in each account — so if your income is closer to $ 70k / yr than $ 200k / yr, then there's even less potential savings on the table so again, just side - step the thorny
issue of asset location entirely).
Plus the
idea of asset location is to try to get a bonus return through optimization with little added risk — the results from not adjusting (being worse off ~ 20 % of the time) look like what happens when you add more risk.
Preet Banerjee tackles this very
issue of Asset Location (as opposed to Asset Allocation), explaining what investments should go in tax shelters and which should not.