The basic reasoning behind both dollar-cost-averaging and periodic rebalancing is that, when you do them both, you get a sort of automatic buy-low, sell-high strategy, and you get some medium-term protection from market volatility. In fact, simulations show that DCA actually improves your performance in volatile markets, mainly through buy-low.
Yes-- it's an imperfect, mechanical, and boring strategy …. *** Remember, your financial strategy should strive to be the opposite of sex: if it's exciting, you're doing it badly.
Notes for trust officers, private bankers and others concerned with estate and trust planning, from a Merrill Anderson Senior Editor and his retired mentor.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Investing is the Opposite of Sex
For another dose of Scott Adams' irreverent financial commentary, see The Horoscope of Investing. Adams suspects that rebalancing to maintain a fixed asset allocation is mostly make-work for investment advisers. That dastardly thought was roundly rebutted in this comment from MattF:
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