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1.
If you want to improve your chances of meeting your investment goal, what can you do?
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Invest more money now. Investing more will always improve your chances. So will lengthening your time horizon or becoming more aggressive with your investments.
2.
Your asset allocation is _______.
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Your portfolios blend of stocks, bonds, and cash. Asset allocation simply means how youve divided up your investment mix.
3.
Investment professionals say which of the following is more important?
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Your asset allocation. While selecting good funds or stocks is certainly important to meeting your goals, most investment professionals agree that asset allocation is even more important.
4.
You need several pieces of information about a financial goal in order to determine the asset allocation strategy to use to achieve it. Which of the following is not one of those pieces of information?
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Current investment earnings rates. These will not help you determine an asset allocation strategy. For one thing, they may be different next year.
5.
Which is NOT a limitation of online asset allocation tools?
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They dont consider your time horizon. Most online asset allocation tools take your time horizon into account. They usually dont consider your tax situation, though. And all make different assumptions about things like inflation.