Thoughts on Macroeconomic Issues, Market Cycles and Investing. I am not selling anything here. My focus is managing my own investments. I am on the web to gather and discuss data and viewpoints. This site is mostly to document my views and forecasts. You are welcome to add your comments.
At the beginning of 2006 my investment assets were 58% in stock, 38% in real estate and 4% in cash. At that time I had debt equal to 21% of assets.
Today my asset allocation is 42% stock, 32% real estate, and 26% bonds and cash. My debt is now down to 11% of assets.
posted by zephyr @ 1:16 AM
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Investor and Retired Fortune 500 executive. Formal education in Economics and Investment Finance, with over 30 years of professional experience in the capital/financial services market, including more than 10 years as a CEO. Recently CEO of a financial services company with over $1 billion of invested financial assets. Privately, my investment focus is Real Estate, where my annual after-tax return on invested equity has averaged about 23% over the last 25 years.
5 Comments:
1.) What is your equities asset allocation?
2.) How do your RE holdings breakdown as far as personal residence (if that is even included), REIT's, and physical property.
Cheers!
My comments relate to investment assets only - my personal residence is not included. I do own rental properties (houses, duplexes and apartments), but not REITs.
In March of 2003 I bought into various industries on a market cycle timing strategy. It was a very good run. During 2006 I decided it was time to get out, so I sold almost all of these stocks, which included commodities (metals), retail, consumer products, healthcare products, and other manufacturing. What now remains is almost entirely financial services, and is dominated by my employer stock (which is politically difficult to sell).
Zephyr - I enjoy your commments on other blogs, but why don't you post more often? It seems like we may be heading for tumultuous times and your insight and experience would be very helpful to us novices.
FredW
FredW, I frequently read the blogs to gather information and to take a temperature of public perception – getting views that are not generally present in my own environment. Calculated Risk is my favorite for this.
Typically, I am not motivated to post comments unless I see statements that are blatantly contrary to economic theory or are ignorant of contradicting historical context. Even then, I usually just read it and move on. However, sometimes I do post my outlook or view when I have more time.
Post more on Mish's site in the comments. Your perspective will be appreciated and it will serve a twofold purpose for you. You will generate more traffic to your blog and you will feel good inside knowing you are helping honest seekers.
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