Get a substantial
portion of your equity exposure invested (at least 30 - 50 %) right away so you'll have the opportunity to participate in the gains, and then space out your subsequent purchases over time.
Currency hedging at least
a portion of your equity exposure has the benefit of keeping some of your returns in the same currency as your consumption, but too much hedging removes the diversification benefit of currency exposure.
Not exact matches
A lot
of Vanguard
Equity Income (similar to the stock
portion of Wellington Fund) and Baird Core Plus for bond
exposure.
I have devoted a large
portion of my research to this effort, and I have found that it is quite possible to anticipate the onset
of a recession and reduce
equity exposure when the risk
of recession is high.
Personally, I don't like much
exposure to resources and Canadian
equities are 20 %
of my allocation, so I prefer to buy stocks directly for that
portion (realizing that I could potentially trail the index).
This implies an explicit foreign
equity exposure of 20 %
of the total portfolio and about 28.6 %
of its
equity portion (20 % in a portfolio with 70 %
of «assets that promise
equity - like returns»).
We also notice that currency
exposure contributes to only a modest
portion of unhedged
equity risk, suggesting it shouldn't be a principal concern when investing globally.
This ETF offers
exposure to dividend - paying U.S.
equities, making SCHD a potentially useful tool for either enhancing current returns derived from the
equity portion of a portfolio or for scaling back risk
exposure within a portfolio.
The adviser uses the following principal strategies: investing primarily in common stocks, selected for their appreciation potential; investing in certain event driven situations; engaging, within prescribed limits, in short sales
of equity securities; varying its common stock
exposure by hedging, primarily with the purchase or short sale
of Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures contracts; and investing all or any
portion of its assets in U.S. Treasury securities.
We believe international
exposure is appropriate for nearly every investor with an
equity portion of their portfolio and a three to five - year investing horizon.
In my own portfolio I do this for REITs (3.2 %) and a large
portion of my US
equity exposure (7.5 % in Vanguard ETF's).
Even in a portfolio like the Sleepy Portfolio with just 20 percent allotted to Canadian stocks and 22.5 percent each to US and EAFE securities and a further 5 percent to emerging markets, the total
exposure to the resource sector in the
equity portion comes to 25.8 percent (18 percent
of the total portfolio).