The S&P 500 Index's threat to your retirement:
You are not getting younger. None of us are. But your portfolio strategy may get old fast. Preventing that from happening may help you feel a lot younger. That starts with what I believe is the single biggest threat to retirement dreams of late-career investors today: Specifically, the habit of relying too much on traditional approaches to stock market investing. The over-use of S&P 500 Index funds today is at the core of that threat.
Performance analysis of your portfolio should always...I repeat...always...be done by starting with what you actually aim to achieve from your investment efforts. That is, are you using the stock market to try to grab a piece of its growth potential over time? If you are in retirement or close to retirement, I hope you are. Because if you are not, you are inviting the wolf at your door to come into your home, and by extension, your retirement plans.Wait a minute.
That is very different from just investing in an S&P 500 Index fund, or a variety of other asset class indexes that basically move up and down with the S&P 500. Here is a chart showing that index from the end of 1999 through the end of 2012. That's a 13-year period of essentially zero returns.Sure, there was a lot of excitement along the way.
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