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I've been on a slow trend towards becoming more and more aggressive with my potential portfolio as I think about our final AA (going from our current 70% cash position to PP to GB to 50% stock).
This afternoon I got curious about intermediate term bonds (which seem to have half the safety of STT's and half the upside volatility of LTT's which could either be considered the best or worst of both worlds). Searching ITTs on this site lead me to Desert's Portfolio (60% ITT, 10%US, 10%SV, 10%Emerge, 10%Gold) - which looked like the mirror image of what I'm currently toying with as our final portfolio AA (we plan on averaging into the final position around the end of the year):
10% Gold
10% Cash
10% LTT's
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10% flex (currently cash, for a potential house purchase...after pulling the trigger, we would push this last chunk towards US Stocks, REITs, ITT's, or emerging markets).
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10% SV
10% Intl
40% US Stock
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Because I have about 20 years left in my career with a government pension, I'm slowly getting more comfortable with the idea of going hard into the stock market - potentially through and past retirement.
On the other hand, if my career path veers outside of public work, then I may well transition over to the Desert portfolio near retirement.
The fun thing about this forum is that we have a mix of people who appreciate/disbelieve the PP. So it's fun to hash these half baked ideas here...thanks in advance for any thoughts. Cheers!