Given asset allocation cannot eliminate the possibility of fluctuating prices and uncertain returns, it goes without saying, investing involves risk.
But much like baseball, where fielders avoid making errors, or batters never wish to strike out – hitting copious singles and doubles, avoiding errors, while trying to elude a strike out, can go a long way to achieving long-term financial success.
We have learned that by employing proper construction characteristics in creating a broad based well-diversified asset allocation, along with tactically doing the simple things well, such as opportunely rebalancing one’s portfolio, can go a long way to achieving lasting goal-oriented financial success.