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The answer, he concludes, is to stick to the basics: asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing.
As we noted in our offshore funds issue of Aug. 23, 1999 ("Back to basics"), asset allocation choices can account for 75% to 85% of a portfolio's return.
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With markets so unpredictable now, many professionals find a basic asset allocation approach too simplistic.
The fact that Mr. Murray knew little up until that point about basic asset allocation among stocks and bonds and other investments or the failings of active portfolio management is shocking, until you consider the self-regard that his master-of-the-universe colleagues taught him.
This fee is for basic asset allocation advice and ongoing portfolio management services.
The idea is to create a basic structure for your "time portfolio" that provides boundaries and parameters for how you spend time (just as you might create a basic asset allocation for an investment portfolio).
Lulled by the good times, they forget basics like asset allocation — or thinking about just what they would do if the market took a serious and prolonged tumble.
Investing Basics: What Is Asset Allocation?
In return, consultants are expected to provide basic services including asset allocation and the screening, hiring and monitoring of money managers.
As Josh delineates in Backstage Wall St, there was some basic training in asset allocation in order to make sure that the accounts were diversified, but asset allocation is about risk reduction, not risk management.
Bear Sterns goes crazy purchasing high risk securities, gets excited when the dollars begin to roll in, and forgets all about the basic Finance 101 principles of asset allocation and diversification.
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