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Your Core Portfolio: The Case for ETFs
May 07, 2014 at 19:00 PM EDT
What are the central goals of investors? For most of us, they’re simple: manage risk, seek income, and achieve long-term growth. These goals, of course, need to be built on a solid foundation: what we call the “core” of a portfolio. These are strategic positions that investors aren’t trading in and out of, but are holding for a full market cycle, about three to five years. They’re not about tactical trading or timing the market—approaches that can work out well sometimes but could also potentially have unwelcome results. Instead, the idea of the core is to establish the right mix of exposures and investments, at an attractive price point, that seek to drive value over the long term. It’s crucial to get these investments right, because the composition of the core of your portfolio – the way you allocate across different types of investments (the central tenet of Modern Portfolio […] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: No Related Posts
What are the central goals of investors? For most of us, they’re simple: manage risk, seek income, and achieve long-term growth. These goals, of course, need to be built on a solid foundation: what we call the “core” of a portfolio. These are strategic positions that investors aren’t trading in and out of, but are holding for a full market cycle, about three to five years. They’re not about tactical trading or timing the market—approaches that can work out well sometimes but could also potentially have unwelcome results. Instead, the idea of the core is to establish the right mix of exposures and investments, at an attractive price point, that seek to drive value over the long term. It’s crucial to get these investments right, because the composition of the core of your portfolio – the way you allocate across different types of investments (the central tenet of Modern Portfolio […]
