They'll give you an idea of what kinds of funds might be good and
what allocation percentages to consider.
Not exact matches
I like the idea of the Target Retirement Funds, but I also like to know exactly
what my asset
allocation is in a given year.How will I be able to calculate the
percentage split each year when the fund merely mentions a «glide slope»?
Portfolio
allocation involves determining
what percentage of a portfolio should be allocated to each asset class.
Once you've determined an asset
allocation that suits your risk tolerance —
what percentage of each type of investment you want to hold — you can look at your accounts as a whole and see if you're matching your targets.
Considering the market trends, any prudent fund managers can change the asset
allocation i.e. he can invest higher or lower
percentage of the fund in equity or debt instruments compared to
what is disclosed in the SID.
But,
what happens, as the stock prices start moving, the
allocation percentage also changes for individual stocks.
When I use such tools as Morningstar's Instant X-ray to check the asset
allocation of my mutual funds,
what I use are the market value of each fund and the tool will take the face values to determine the
percentage of each asset class across the entire portfolio.
Build a spreadsheet with your asset
allocation, calculate
what percentage each account represents of the whole portfolio.
I provided an argument as to
what allocation amount /
percentage has been deemed «optimal» according to studies made on past data (but we know that historical data can only go so far), but each person makes their own decisions as to
what they'd like to do with their portfolios.
What one stock
allocation percentage makes sense both when the long - term return is likely going to be 15 percent real and when the long - term return is likely going to be a negative 1 percent real?
While we can only hope the the credit crunch, financial markets crash, recession, and near depression of 2008 and 2009, is an aberation and not the new normal, it is instructive to look at a few data points to see
what happened to the apparent asset
allocation percentages at certain points during this crisis.
Depending upon your relative tolerance for investment risk compared to the «average investor,» these average
percentages are instructive concerning
what an average individual investor's asset
allocation would be.
Looking at
what is a good fund
allocation for the eseries account, i've seen many allocating different
percentages to each can / us / and even to the global equities however they don't look so good at this time.
What I found interesting is that ROBO would not disclose what the threshold percentage level is because they fear people will front run and trade off the allocations on their own portfol
What I found interesting is that ROBO would not disclose
what the threshold percentage level is because they fear people will front run and trade off the allocations on their own portfol
what the threshold
percentage level is because they fear people will front run and trade off the
allocations on their own portfolios.