QUOTE(SKY 1809 @ Feb 20 2013, 03:59 PM)
Beg to differ on those highlighted with red.
1) If one who knows how to pick up good Dividend stocks, moving back money into Cash, FD or Bonds looks quite funny or rather reflects the insecurity of a person aka investor ( if without any good specific reasons given )
2) Not all Bonds are on par with one another , many junk bonds around since century ago. Not all Euro country bonds are on par with each other. Even Mini bonds issued by Ang Mo bank could go under water.
3) Asset Allocations do recognize some economic situations, like improving or deteriorates ...not because Bonds, FD are better and vice versa...........BUT rather situations based decisions , Goals , risk factors , age plus plus.
4) Your discussions are generally theory based , plugged from somewhere maybe textbooks or so .
Just my views only.
hi thank you for your input.
i reply according to the perceived knowledge level of the TS.
definitely everyone has to allocate assets differently according to many many conditions, eg current age, current economic situations etc.
but as a whole, someone who would ask for a dividend paying passive income stocks is highly likely to be an investor who is more interested in low risk assets, thus i suggest to look more into cash, fd and bonds as these, as a whole have lower risks compared to stocks. what i mean is to allocate more to these asset classes, and less so in stocks, not moving for and back, though this should also be done regularly according to the bull-bear cycle of different asset classes, eg bonds, stocks, property etc.
everyone who is interested in financial freedom should at least have good theory, this is similar to why we go to schools when we were young.