Not exact matches
A central premise
of risk parity is that, in the long run, all the
asset categories offer similar risk - adjusted returns, but clearly there are environments in which the Sharpe ratios are very
different across
asset classes.
In its simplest terms,
asset allocation is the practice
of dividing resources among
different categories such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, investment partnerships, real estate, cash equivalents and private equity.
The importance
of subdividing your cash
assets into
different categories, such as emergency funds, car replacement funds, income replacement funds, etc, is that it gives you a better sense
of what you can afford.
Diversification with mutual funds is a means
of reducing total portfolio risk buy holding funds that represent
different categories and
asset classes.
Here, that line is expanded into several
different categories, enabling the reader to understand how much
of the capital
assets is in buildings, how much in land, etc..
ETFs have grown rapidly and their portfolios include many
categories of assets, but some funds available today are very
different from the original S&P 500 SPDRs.
Asset classes are the
different categories of investments.
Your
asset allocation, how you divide your portfolio among
different asset categories, will be the biggest determinant
of your investment returns.
But neither strategy attempts to reduce risk by holding
different types
of asset categories.
The key is to identify investments in segments
of each
asset category that may perform differently under
different market conditions.
The result: Across
different asset categories, funds with the lowest expense ratios performed best, over time periods
of three, four and five years.
Instead
of NPS, create you own portfolio
of investments (across
different asset categories - MFs, PPF, Stocks etc) for your retirement goal.
Many prefer the «set it and forget it» approach
of spreading IRA money among a few broad - based investments in
different asset categories and then letting it run.
(ii) Generally, don't deal with
different categories of asset separately (para 66).
Instead
of NPS, create you own portfolio
of investments (across
different asset categories - MFs, PPF, Stocks etc) for your retirement goal.
You will be better off taking a good Term Insurance Plan (Read my article on «Top 7 best Online Term Insurance Plans «-RRB- and invest a portion
of your savings in
different asset categories.
The layout should present
different categories of assets.