market timing – Ascent Financial Solutions https://www.ascentsolutions.in Ascent Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a professionally run, SEBI registered investment advisory firm established with a single-minded objective of providing Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:44:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.ascentsolutions.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Favicon_Ascent-100x98.png market timing – Ascent Financial Solutions https://www.ascentsolutions.in 32 32 5 Money Actions that can create disaster in your Financial Life. https://www.ascentsolutions.in/5-money-actions-that-can-create-disaster-in-your-financial-life/ https://www.ascentsolutions.in/5-money-actions-that-can-create-disaster-in-your-financial-life/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:26:22 +0000 http://ascentsolutions.in/wordpress/?p=1223

 

Most of you have been reading my articles for quite a long time. I have written a lot on how you can organize your financial life. Now this time I want to tell you what you should not do. Successful Financial life can be achieved by avoiding mistakes and adopting a disciplined approach towards your financial affairs.  Following 5 money actions will definitely affect your financial life negatively so I request you to avoid these mistakes:

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In may last article on Asset Allocation, I had discussed how Asset Allocation and Rebalancing of portfolio is done at periodic frequency.Now in this article I have given a back testing of the same for a period of 31/12/2006 to 31/12/2014. Let us see below, how Asset allocation and rebalancing actually works and help investors to reduce risk in their portfolio and make reasonable returns.

In below calculation I have taken an investment of Rs. 1 lac and divided it in 50% to Sensex (Equity) and 50% to Franklin India Short Term Bond Fund ( Debt) and thereafter rebalanced on a half yearly basis. Figures of the Sensex and NAV of Fund are real.

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In my earlier article on Risk profiling I had explained about what is Risk Profiling and how to do it? Now this article is an Effort to explain what is Asset Allocation and how it helps you.

Asset  Allocation is the process of dividing your investments among different  assets classes , such as Equity, bonds, real estate, commodities and cash, to optimize the risk/reward trade off based on an individual investor’s specific situation and goals. Normally in India investor’s directly start investing in securities without deciding what is optimum asset mix for them.

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