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1.
Rebalancing your portfolio is ultimately meant to keep it in synch with your investment goals.
True. As it grows out of synch with your goals over time, you need to rebalance it to keep it in line.
2.
Rebalancing your portfolio involves looking at where it has become lopsided over the years. What is most likely to have happened, as a general rule, with your bond and cash investments during this time?
They will have shrunk in proportion to stocks. Generally, stocks will have grown faster, leaving the bonds and cash in a lower proportion of your portfolio. This usually calls for some rebalancing.
3.
If you want to save on taxes while rebalancing your portfolio, _______.
Use new money to rebalance. Rebalancing less frequently will allow you to avoid taxes, as will selling securities from tax-deferred accounts BEFORE you sell securities from taxable accounts.
4.
What's the primary reason to rebalance?
To control your portfolio's volatility. By rebalancing, you ensure that your portfolio isn't overly dependent on the success or failure of one investment, asset class, or style.
5.
Which statement is false?
Rebalancing doesn't allow you to benefit from a change in the market's favorites. Trimming back on a winner may have its tax consequences, but it allows you to reap the rewards of diversification and position your portfolio to benefit from a change in the market's favorites.