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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (15334)	1/16/2000 6:24:00 PM
From: daffydog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Far from being OT, I think these retirement strategy discussions are quite pertinent to this thread and those who participate here. For those who want a little more diversification into cash and bonds than the courageous souls who'll keep nearly everything they have in gorillas, this is a reasonable place to start with a simple strategy that may work for you: home.earthlink.net MGG

To: unclewest who wrote (15334)	1/16/2000 6:56:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

dynamic portfolios are seldom the goal of successful retirees Most people on this board could get by, (with say, the house they have and any modest pension,) pulling down 100k a year from a one Million market portfolio. That takes a 10% increase a year in the portfolio to cover. As I have said before, every indication I get says that most people here that are pulling the plug have twice that, or 2 Mil, in the market. So they could take one hell of a bear market and still do well. If you had a portfolio of 25% QCOM, MSFT, CSCO, and INTC each, for instance, you are going to do well over the next 5 years without worrying about it. But lets face it. The people here are all active investors. They are not going to turn into turtles simply because they have retired. I consider the advice given on those retirement planning boards to be pretty low level, by our standards.