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FusionIQ: Stop Tinkering With The 60/40 Allocation And Get Back To Work!

(FusionIQ) Preparing to write this article, I found 119 articles on the death of the 60/40 portfolio, the comeback of the 60/40 portfolio or the “new” 60/40 portfolio. 

Then I stopped counting. In fairness, many of them were quite good. While this may seem like overkill, the reality is that the 60/40 portfolio, for many, is the goldilocks allocation of risk. And that is not a bad thing, but it is also not enough to guarantee success.