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Should an 80 year old be in 100% stocks?
By Investment Moats  •  January 23, 2017
The most common advise may not be the right action that you should take. In everything we do, we always want to do the right thing. And often, we feel that the right thing is to do what the general crowd is doing. This is to be safer in numbers. Charley Ellis is 79 years old. He is a well respected in the money management world. He takes the indexing approaching to investing. For an older person like him, a suitable portfolio allocation would be one where the bond allocation matches closer to his age. This conventional allocation is important because stocks provide greater returns in the long run, but they can be rather volatile. If you are withdrawing money from the portfolio while the portfolio is being hammered, it may be challenging for your portfolio to retain adequate value to last a 20 to 30 years duration. Bonds, while lower ......
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By Investment Moats
Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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