User 268734

Asset Re-Allocation Might Make S&P Rise 20%

"Even in 2008, the classic Bond/Equity portfolio still worked well. As you can see from the chart below, a very simple portfolio with only Equity (SPY: S&P 500) and bond (TLT: iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treas Bond ) diversified your risk and did much better than the market: this simple portfolio was down 16%, vs. –40% for SPY in 2008."

If this is the writer's definition of working 'well', I'm wondering what it would take to do 'badly'.