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... is the entrepreneur who has sold his business fora lump sum and has no tax-sheltered assets at all This investor is severely limited as to the kind of assets he can own Thereasonfor this is ... roll into an IRA when he closes up shop Sam has much more freedom in his choice of asset classes than Ted, because he can invest in any asset class he desires without tax consequences In terms of ... tax-inefficient asset classes mandates that at least 30% of his assets be tax-sheltered And even in this case, it would actually be nice to have about 10% more sheltering for cash— in fact 40% ofthe total—to...
... mandates investing larger amounts of money at market bottoms than at market tops You can think of value averaging as a combination of DCA and rebalancing (Value averaging works just as well in ... small investor who possesses an unfair advantage Why? For two reasons First, because sudden market downturns affect smaller investors less, because they have a smaller portion of their portfolio invested ... weighting, we’d have sold some U .S large stocks and foreign stocks, and bought more small stocks and REITs As you can see, this wasa wash In 1998 as in 1999, small stocks did better than the portfolio,...
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