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One of the parts of modern financial planning for individuals that simply does not make sense (to me, at least) is that asset allocation is treated as though there is a generic solution for every person, with choices of allocation being a function of age and stated risk tolerance, although most people really have no idea whether their risk tolerance is best matched to an 'aggressive portfolio' or a 'moderate portfolio.'
This lack of tailoring of investment plans is unfortunate. Still, moving from generic to tailored solutions is a measure of maturity of most areas of commerce. In the fifteenth century, there were just a couple of shoe sizes and left and right shoes Balenciaga were identical. Thankfully, our shoes are now matched far more closely to the shapes of individual feet and (hopefully) asset allocation will follow suit.
Jane has $120,000 in her retirement portfolio and plans to contribute $15,000 per year (adjusted up each year to match inflation) to her 401(k) each year, including her employer match. When Jane retires, she plans to draw $75,000 per year (in 2005 dollars) from her portfolio. She will adjust that upwards each year to account for inflation. Jane is saving fairly aggressively at this stage in her life by comparison to most Americans of the same age. We are going to look at two allocations and how they might work for Jane. balenciaga bag sale
In a paper from December of 2005, we looked at a wide range of iShares ETF's and at the range of performance variables of different members of this fund family. Based upon that analysis, we have identified a small group of ten ETF's that have a long history (by ETF standards) and provide the ability to create balenciaga bag a wide range of lowcost portfolios with nicely optimized riskreturn balances:
If you are interested in building a portfolio that exploits strategic diversification effects but you do not want to invest the time to investigate individuals companies or stocks, you could do a lot worse than starting with this small selection of investment options.
Rather than looking at recent historical values for risk and return, we project forward using the Quantext Portfolio Planner (QPP), a Monte Carlo simulation tool. QPP takes both fairly recent market history (three years in this case), combined with the longterm balance of risk and return in the stock and bond markets and http://www.balenciagatop.com/ the assumed future performance of the S as a whole, and generates projections for risk and return. QPP includes fund fees and assumes reinvestment of all dividends. When we calculate projected future values for these ETF's using QPP we obtain the following:
This portfolio has a projected future return of 9.83% per year, with a standard deviation of 12.68% per year. This means that this portfolio is projected to have less future volatility than the S (recall that this is projected at 15.07%) and a higher return. This portfolio has performed very well over the past three years (shown aboveHistorical Data), but note that we are projecting a future annual return that is less than half of this level (9.83% vs. 19.59%). This portfolio, while it can be improved, looks pretty good. This is not accidental and you would not get portfolio diversification effects nearly this good if you start with just any random selection of ETF's. To get a better understanding of why we feel that this is a good 'small universe' to start from, read the previous paper cited above.

Now, even though this portfolio takes good advantage of diversification effects, is it right for Jane? This is where the issue of personalization comes in. What does a standard deviation of 12.68% per year, with average return of 9.8% per year mean for Jane? We can be pretty happy with the projected average return, but is this risk level a lot or a little. An easy way to examine this is to look at short and medium term projections for the portfoliothese make a portfolio feel much more concrete. QPP allows the user to specify a time horizon and then look at the probability of sustaining a certain level of loss. We took a look at a 90 (calendar) day projection and got the following: