Are You an Asset-Allocation Outlier?
From pensions to small-business ownership, how to know if your mix of stocks, bonds, and cash should not look like the others'.
Investing Specialists
Note: This article is part of Morningstar's Guide to Saving for Retirement. An earlier version of this article appeared on Jan. 26, 2016.
Professional asset-allocation guidance has never been easier or cheaper to obtain. Target-date funds, with stock/bond mixes informed by professional asset allocators, have emerged as the default investment choice for most defined-benefit plans. Target-date fund asset growth has slowed in recent years, but the funds held more than $700 billion in assets in 2016.