A quick thought here.
Recently, there have been a number of articles comparing the performance of those investors who left a portion of their portfolio in “safer” assets coming out of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) versus those who took a more aggressive posture and were mostly or all in equities. I will pick on this one:
I get it. If you look at asset performance over the last ten years or so, the returns of U.S. equities look fantastic. Holding anything but U.S. equities has been dilutive to portfolio performance.
Be careful though just focusing on the results of the last decade and making the leap that holding mostly U.S. equities was a good decision. Or that should be your strategy going forward. That would be called “resulting”.
“Resulting” is a poker term that refers to our habit of judging a decision based solely on the outcome it produced. – Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke
A good outcome is not necessarily the result of a good decision. And vice versa.