Comments on: How Not to Rebalance http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/01/22/the-wrong-way-to-rebalance/ Not just another (Canadian) financial blog Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:22:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Investing Intelligently » Blog Archive » First Portfolio Update Since Starting at Clearsight http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/01/22/the-wrong-way-to-rebalance/comment-page-1/#comment-942 Investing Intelligently » Blog Archive » First Portfolio Update Since Starting at Clearsight Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:25:20 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/?p=118#comment-942 [...] Anyways, I have about $2962 in cash built up from monthly contributions and my wife has $4165 built up. Our advisor though it would be a good idea to put my wife’s cash into more of TD Canadian Bond Fund. It is a little bit strategic on our part but I will never complain about having lots of fixed-income conservative investments in my portfolio. On the other hand, what we are doing might be akin to what I talked about in a previous article called “How Not to Rebalance.” Let me know what you think. [...] [...] Anyways, I have about $2962 in cash built up from monthly contributions and my wife has $4165 built up. Our advisor though it would be a good idea to put my wife’s cash into more of TD Canadian Bond Fund. It is a little bit strategic on our part but I will never complain about having lots of fixed-income conservative investments in my portfolio. On the other hand, what we are doing might be akin to what I talked about in a previous article called “How Not to Rebalance.” Let me know what you think. [...]

]]> By: Karteek http://www.investingintelligently.com/2006/01/22/the-wrong-way-to-rebalance/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Karteek Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:24:20 +0000 http://www.investingintelligently.com/?p=118#comment-111 Yeah, let's not rebalance when it's going to go up ... oh, and let's buy stock at the trough and sell it at the peak ... Reminds me of Dave Barry on an interview in NPR (paraphrased)... I have the only foolproof way to make money. Find what stocks did well in the last 25 years, invent a time machine and go back 25 years. And yet we'll continue to see more bs like this ... Yeah, let’s not rebalance when it’s going to go up … oh, and let’s buy stock at the trough and sell it at the peak …

Reminds me of Dave Barry on an interview in NPR (paraphrased)… I have the only foolproof way to make money. Find what stocks did well in the last 25 years, invent a time machine and go back 25 years.

And yet we’ll continue to see more bs like this …

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