“For years, investment firms and professionals have advocated the need to include a small percentage of high risk and potentially high reward assets into your retirement portfolio. The thinking is that including a small percentage of your overall asset allocation (from 5% – 10%) into these assets can provide high potential returns with only a small impact on your portfolio if the risk becomes too great. Robert Powell wrote on this site recently of how defined benefit plan managers often go beyond stocks and bonds to achieve high returns by pursuing more ‘nontraditional strategies’.”
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