Poll: How much currently in equities?

[flyingaway]

I hold about 85% equities and 15% cash. Keep buying stock funds even today.

 

[Mulligan]

Im either almost 100 % in stock or 20%, depending on whether you want to call preferred stock part of the "stock world". Have actually tippy toed back into common stock with first purchase in over a year this week. Just when the scars have healed I am back to catching falling knives again!


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[gcgang]

65%. I've put off reducing as I'd have significant capital gains and still have high income from buyout payments for another year. But I think I'm going to bite the bullet, start selling and get to a more comfortable allocation of 30-50%.


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[Mango1956]

40% here.

 

[jazz4cash]

Very surprised at the fairly low equity allocations. It just dawned on me that I have extremely limited means to rebalance since I only have CDs outside of stocks. I guess I would just let my allocation float down until Cds mature.

Hmmm...don't seem to be able to edit this post and I forgot to mention my ratio was 70% last time I checked so maybe 68% after the recent market drama. The rest is a bit of money market (3%) and mostly credit union CDs...no bonds.

 

[mathjak107]

about 40-50% currently at 40%

 

[mathjak107]

You missed out on quite a run-up if you got spooked 2 years ago. SP500 is up about 22% or so incl dividends and that includes the recent drop.

that is an important point .

if you didn't have a nice weight in equity's all these years then where we fell to or may fall to would still be more than you had if you played it much safer .

 

[RetiredGypsy]

I'm at 56.5% equity, with the rest just about evenly split between CDs and bonds.

 

[albundyz]

as I approach critical mass, I take less risk, I'm at 33%

it might have been a bit more helpful if posters included their age. 75 yrs old s/b a lot different than 55 yrs old..... I'm 64

 

[molly312]

This chart would be more interesting if there was a way to add the age of the person to the % in equities.

 

[photoguy]

Declining....daily....

I've been camping / traveling and haven't had much time to check our portfolio until last night. But our percent in equities only moved a tiny bit (maybe 65 to 63%) over this recent doom and gloom.

This is my first post ER market drop and I'm happy to report it hasn't worried us at all.




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[freebird5825]

41.8 % equities as of 9/4/15.

Target AA is 40/60

I may let my portfolio migrate back to 50/50, the AA I used when I first FIREd. In other words, not actively rebalance when (not if ) the market recovers.

 

[RobLJ]

61.5% equities (target is 63%; I rebalance when it goes +/-3%). 57 & semi-early retired (working about 15-20 hours online); no pension.

 

[GravitySucks]

40% in the 401k I'm living off of for the next three years.
80% in the IRA that won't be touched for at least three years.
55% in the after tax account used to smooth taxes.
75% total.

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