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1. Understand your allocation options:CORE STRATEGY
The core strategy consists of holdings that are based on market fundamentals, valuations, and long-term market trends. These are holding that should be considered “long-term” investments and should primarily track the benchmark index over time. The turnover of the portfolio should be extremely low with the exception of rebalancing periods due to market gyrations.
TACTICAL STRATEGY
The tactical strategy consists of holdings which based on the short- to intermediate-term trends of the market. As macro-economic, monetary and fiscal policy, and investor psychology impacts markets, the holdings in the tactical strategy will shift to take advantage of market rotations. Importantly, this portion of the portfolio can move to all cash if needed to reduce risk in the event of a market downturn.
FIXED INCOME
The fixed income strategy is designed to both take advantage of changes in interest rate and inflation expectations, but also deliver a lower degree of volatility to the overall portfolio. The primary focus of the fixed-income portfolio is to protect capital, generate income, and lower overall portfolio volatility.
2. Choose the financial strategy that best fits your retirement goals and let RIA do all the work for you: Current Target
Risky
Conservative
Aggressive Growth
100% Stocks0% Bonds
A portfolio that is 100% exposed to stocks for investors seeking to obtain “benformance”. This portfolio is most suitable for younger investors with a long-term time horizon to retirement.
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Growth
80% Stocks20% Bonds
For investors still wanting more growth from their portfolio, but with a slightly lower risk profile. The addition of fixed income lowers overall volatility. This portfolio is suitable for investors with a 10-20 year time horizon to retirement.
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Balanced
60% Stocks40% Bonds
Investors seeking a more conservative approach that will track a balanced index may find the balanced. With lower volatility, but with a growth component, the portfolio is suitable for investors 10-15 years to retirement.
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Conservative
40% Stocks60% Bonds
For those approaching retirement and are more (<10 years) concerned about capital preservation over growth, the conservative model may be useful. With a lower exposure to stocks, volatility is reduced and should protect portfolios against potential market drawdowns.
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Ultra Conservative
20% Stocks80% Bonds
For investors rapidly approaching retirement, where funds will be rolled out of company retirement plans, an ultra-conservative model may be useful in ensuring capital protection. Useful for individuals within 24-months of retirement.
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Fixed Income Only
0% Stocks100% Bonds
For individuals within 12-months of retirement, an all fixed income portfolio may be appropriate to protect capital before the roll-over process. If your window to retirement is longer than 12-months, the Ultra-Conservative model may be more appropriate.
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Asset Class
CORE STRATEGY
Large Cap Blend (Ex. S&P 500 Index)
25
20
20
15
5
Large Cap Growth
10
5
Large Cap Value
5
Large Cap Dividend
5
10
10
Mid Cap Growth
10
5
Mid Cap Value
5
5
Small Cap Blend
15
15
5
TACTICAL STRATEGY
International Growth
5
5
5
International Value
5
5
International Blend
5
5
Emerging Markets
10
5
Real Estate
10
10
10
5
5
Commodities
10
10
FIXED INCOME
Short Term Core
5
10
20
35
Intermediate Core
10
15
30
30
30
Global Fixed
10
10
15
10
High Yield Bond
10
5
Inflation Protected
5
10
15
25
CASH
Retirement Reserves/Stable Value
5 Year Standard Deviation
15.8
13.1
9.8
6
4.4
3
5 Year Annual Return
16.7
13.8
10.7
7.9
5.8
3.4
5 Year Maximun Drawdown
-34.3
-30.2
-24.5
-16.7
-11.2
-8.2
Commentary (as of 6/10/2022)
Over the last two weeks, the market has continued to consolidate its recent advance in a very tight trading range. Our concern was that the market could not break above the April lows which increased the probability of a downside break and a retest of May lows.
That break occurred on Thursday as a rise in jobless claims added to the concerns the economy is slowing much faster than expected. This comes at a time the Fed is just starting their rate hiking campaign and “quantitative tightening” to reduce their balance sheet.
For now, we continue to suggest remaining more “risk off” by removing exposure as needed to lower portfolio risk. We laid out several guidelines last week to follow:
- Tighten up stop-loss levels to levels where you are comfortable selling if markets reverse again.
- Hedge portfolios against significant market declines. (swap equity funds for money market, stable value or bond funds.)
- Take profits in positions that have been big winners (Rebalance funds that are above the normal weightings for your portfolio. Same with Company stock in your plan.)
- Sell laggards and losers.
- Raise cash and rebalance portfolios to target weightings. (Rebalancing risk regularly keeps hidden risks somewhat mitigated.)
Notice, nothing in there says, “sell everything and go to cash.”
Given the weight of evidence, We suggest taking action on any rally next week that fails to move above the 50-dma. Any break below the 20-dma is going to lead to new market lows and an official bear market in the S&P 500.
If the environment changes, it’s a simple process to reallocate aggressively to equities. By planning, the worst that can happen is underperformance if the bull market suddenly resumes.
As we have noted over the last several weeks, using the models above, continue to underweight international and emerging markets, and small and mid-cap markets, in exchange for large capitalization weighted holdings for now. Furthermore, continue to keep all NEW contributions stored in your cash alternative or stable value fund. If you don’t have access to either use the shortest-duration bond fund in your choices.
If you are close to retirement or are concerned about a pickup in volatility, there is nothing wrong with being very underweight equities. It is better to be safe than have to give up dreams of retirement to rebuild lost wealth.
Model Performance
Model performance is a two-asset model of stocks and bonds relative to the weighting changes made each week in the newsletter. Such is strictly for informational and educational purposes only, and one should not rely on it for any reason. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Use at your own risk and peril.
