The Wall Street Journal’s recent article, “Same Returns, Less Risk” discusses different approaches to managing portfolio risk while maintaining exposure to potential returns available from stocks and other riskier asset classes.
If you are a Portfolioist reader, you know that we’ve written about the importance of risk budgeting in the past (see, “Risk Budgeting: A Critical Tool for Portfolio Management”). You also know that we believe that risk budgeting is an important part of successful long-term investing. That’s why we constructed our line-up of Target Date Folios using a risk budgeting approach—and this stands in stark contrast to the strategy used in more traditional Target Date Mutual Funds that generally use static asset allocations that don’t adjust their risk allocations in volatile market conditions. (more…)
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