Why Regular Rebalancing Makes Sense
Submitted by Ferguson Financial Inc. on December 21st, 2017Your investment portfolio may be off-kilter, and you may not even know it.
Is 80% of your portfolio held in equities? Perhaps it is without you realizing it. You could invite this risk, and others, if you go too long without rebalancing your portfolio.
Some investors stick with the same asset allocation in their investment portfolios (and retirement accounts) for decades: they “set it and forget it.” The longer the initial (target) asset allocation goes unreviewed, the greater the potential divergence between the target allocation and the actual allocation.