Posted on September 29, 2009 - by Adrian Khiat

Timing the Market?

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Many of my clients are sitting on a profit of between 20% to 30% for their investments especially those who heed my advise to invest during the early part of the year. Some of them asked in May, some in June and July if they should sell their investments. I instead proposed to increase equity position and switch to corporate bonds during May and June. Fortunately, it pays off.

I’m still sticking to the 60% equity position for balanced investors, 75% for growth investors, 85% for agressive investors. I’m trying not to time the market too much and manage risk via the asset classes of equity, bonds and money markets using largely geographical allocation with bias towards Asia and Commodities. Read more…

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