Portfolio balancing act
‘Question:I know it’s important to keep my investment portfolio in balance, but how often should I do it?
Answer: Most experts agree that the single biggest factor in long-term investment performance is the way the portfolio is balanced between stocks, bonds and cash.
A typical portfolio might have 60 percent of its assets in stocks or stock-holding mutual funds, 30 percent in bonds, and 10 percent in cash, with younger investors putting more into stocks and less into bonds, and older ones doing the opposite….’
Read more at On Personal Finance | Your portfolio balancing act
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