We had made a major pivoting decision with regards to our Bedokian Portfolio. It was not an overnight decision and sudden course of action. The transformation had taken place for the past six to nine months.
Okay, so what is the pivot all about?
For our Bedokian Portfolio built with our disposable income, we had followed the balanced allocation since its inception, which was 35% equities, 35% REITs, 20% bonds, 5% commodities and 5% cash.
Then what is our new allocation?
That would (currently) be 40% equities, 35% REITs, 15% bonds, 5% commodities and 5% cash. Basically, we had reduced the bond component by 5% and added it to the equities part.
I could call this “balanced-plus” Bedokian Portfolio, or “aggressive-minus” (for information, the aggressive Bedokian Portfolio make-up is 40% equities, 40% REITs, 10% bonds, 5% commodities and 5% cash)1, because it sits right in between balanced and aggressive.
Okay, it is just a shift of 5% from bonds to equities....