The financial industry loves to sell complicated – and expensive – products, but simple is quite often the smart choice.
You know all about the value of diversification. The simplest approach to diversification is to own a mix of stocks and bonds. At the other extreme is a portfolio that owns a dozen or more types of asset classes, such as commodities, alternative investments and real estate, here and abroad.
The triumph of the boring portfolio
A recent analysis by Callan created a simple hypothetical portfolio for a 45-year-old saving for retirement. The portfolio contained only the S&P 500 stock index and the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index.
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