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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks achen Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25 Why Have High Dividend Yielding Sectors Done Well This Year? According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. Reach for yield.

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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks. According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25. Why Have High Dividend Yielding Sectors Done Well This Year? Reach for yield.

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Nouriel Roubini Enters The ETF Fray

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There's no fact sheet yet and while the holdings are available, the asset allocation is vague without calculating the spreadsheet yourself which I did (hopefully correctly). The backtest runs from the start of 2011 to the end of 2020. Offering diversified exposure to U.S.

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Just Put It All Into.

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Anytime I talk about letting markets work for you over the long term and the role that an adequate savings rate plays in financial success, I will usually caveat that with assuming a proper asset allocation. Gold was mostly in a downtrend from mid-2011 to early 2016.

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Be Good Enough

The Irrelevant Investor

The optimal portfolio given the assets I selected outperformed one that required zero thought by just 0.76% a year. Creating the proper asset allocation and staying with it has a much bigger impact on your returns than selecting the best performing funds within those asset classes. Portfolio 2 sold after the 23.3%

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Are 0dte Funds A Bigger Threat To Human Life Than AI?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

If there is another flash crash like 2011 or 2015, there was a lot of ground gained back before markets closed on those days. They build out a few different types with various allocation percentages for each type. I was curious of course so I looked at the 60/40 blend under Strategic Asset Allocation.

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Regret-Adjusted Returns

The Irrelevant Investor

only" from 1970-2011. Growth of $1, however, is probably the least relevant metric in the entire performance universe. Here's one reason why- a global portfolio (in black) outperformed "U.S. The entire spread between $126 and $95 has occurred over the last 8 years.