Comments on: The 50-50 Portfolio Solution? http://portfolioist.com/2011/12/08/the-50-50-portfolio-solution/ a forum for news, ideas and commentary on the art and science of long-term investing Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: What is Your Risk Appetite? « Portfolio Investing Blog: Portfolioist http://portfolioist.com/2011/12/08/the-50-50-portfolio-solution/#comment-3210 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:45 +0000 http://portfolioist.com/?p=7269#comment-3210 [...] The 50-50-Portfolio Solution? [...]

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]]> By: Just Put the Ball in Play « Portfolio Investing Blog: Portfolioist http://portfolioist.com/2011/12/08/the-50-50-portfolio-solution/#comment-2810 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:40:01 +0000 http://portfolioist.com/?p=7269#comment-2810 [...] The 50-50 Portfolio Solution? [...]

]]> By: A 50:50 Chance | Above the Market http://portfolioist.com/2011/12/08/the-50-50-portfolio-solution/#comment-2690 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:30:08 +0000 http://portfolioist.com/?p=7269#comment-2690 [...] Geoff Considine has noted, over the past 15 years, Vanguard’s Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX) has returned an average [...]

]]> By: Geoff Considine http://portfolioist.com/2011/12/08/the-50-50-portfolio-solution/#comment-2676 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:52:40 +0000 http://portfolioist.com/?p=7269#comment-2676 Oddly enough, Burton Malkiel (author of the investment classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street and professor at Princeton), just came out with an Op Ed piece in the NY Times that comes to a very similar conclusion–the final sentence is almost identical to my own above:

“The traditional diversification advice of a simple stock-bond mix needs to be fine-tuned.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204449804577068152764286924.html

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