My latest is up at Alphabaskets titled Turning Asset Allocation Upside Down which is about an article from the WSJ that seeks to offer a completely different spin how much to have in equities when you start retirement and then later on.
After the second 50% drawdown of the US equity market in one decade, the investment industry began to reassess the idea of what asset allocation should look like. Unlike the 1980’s and 1990’s, financial professionals can no longer rely on an almost static 60/40 or 70/30, watch the equity portion triple in 15 or 20 years and then flip the whole thing to fixed income for a safe 6%.
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