I’m planning for retirement but looking for growth, what do you suggest?

I'm going to be retiring in 10 - 15 years so I'm concerned with preserving my capital but also making it grow. What do you suggest I put my money in and why?

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MNSL answered a question in Personal Finance.
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MNSL answered 11 months ago …

Invest 25% of money into financial company shares with strong balance sheet, less debt and continues earnings. There will be great opportunities in this year especially in USA.

Invest 25% of money into food related companies that include animal production companies where there are good demands for food products and with good consistent earnings. There are outstanding companies in animal production sector with less debt, with more than 20% return of investment, with good earnings throughout the world including emerging markets even today. You can watch for some ETF as well.

Invest 20% in soft commodities which are not appreciated yet.

Allocate 10% to invest in companies who declaring dividend very often between 10% to 20% through out the world. If you just hold outstanding companies with more than 20% dividend for five years you have double your investment. In the meantime if there is capital gain you will get more than 200% return.

Keep 20% in cash. You can use this money when there is a big correction in any type of market. For example People bought oil, maize, gold commodity instruments for cheaper price when market is down. Now they are selling whenever there is a record price. You can buy when oil comes down to $ 50 per oil barel and can sell whenever it reaches to $100 per oil barel.

Pl Avoid putting money in some hot commodities, stocks and real estate at the moment. You can take capital gains whenever you stocks become very expensive with higher P/E more than 30. Then you can invest back when it is becomes cheap. Finally closer to retirement keep 70% of your money in cash.

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EthanR answered a question in Personal Finance.
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EthanR answered 11 months ago …

Since you have a 10-15 year horizon, why not go with the best performing growth mutual funds over the last 20 years? That is a long enough track record to indicate not only stability of capital, but solid growth as well. This link will provide you with the top growth funds over that period of time:
http://www.thestreet.com/funds/mutualfundinvesting/10385337.html

ETF's have not been around as long, but if you prefer to use ETF's, for a good list of the performance over the last three years of 642 ETF's, start with http://finance.yahoo.com/etf

Begin with 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds. However, after each five year period, to reduce risk, re-allocate perhaps 15-20% of your total portfolio to a top performing bond fund. Some links to best performing bond funds are:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/partsub/funds/topfunds.asp http://biz.yahoo.com/p/tops/fixed.html

To minimize your tax bite, as much money as possible should be placed into tax free or tax deferred accounts. This would include 401k, Traditional, or Roth IRA's. Check with your CPA to see if you qualify for a Roth IRA, as those whose earnings are very high will not. If you are self-employed, you can put up to 25% of your annual gross income into an SEP-IRA. If you are over age 50 now, or when you reach 50, the law allows you to "catch up" by increasing the amounts you can put into your 401k or IRA's.

You will also want to diversify whichever funds you use. Buy international funds or ETF's as well as ones that invest in the U.S. Allocate at least 5% into gold funds or ETF's. This link will show you the top performing international mutual funds:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/partsub/funds/topfunds.asp

and the top performing International ETF's can be found here:

http://www.investortrip.com/top-5-performing-international-etfs/

Good luck!

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sundarkambam answered a question in Personal Finance.
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sundarkambam answered 11 months ago …

Invest :

A. Major portion of your savings in Mutual Funds - Debt based or Balanced.
B. Some portion of your savings can go to Systematic Investment plans of a growth oriented fund.
C. A greater percentage of your portfolio in regular income options.
D. A small percentage of your portfolio in equities so as to maintain the habit of wealth generation.

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sundarkambam answered a question in Personal Finance.
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sundarkambam answered 11 months ago …

Asset Allocation may be :

Stocks - 30%
Equity Funds - 20%
Fixed Income - 20%
Debt Funds - 15%
Cash - 15%

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