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The Summit Is Just the Beginning: Navigating the Retirement Descent
Imagine spending decades preparing to climb a mountain. You train, study the route, gather your gear, and slowly work your way higher. There are steep stretches, unpredictable weather, and plenty of moments when progress feels slow. But you keep going because you know where you want to end up: the summit.
For many people, retirement is that summit. After years of saving through a 401(k), IRA, or other investment accounts, you’ve reached the point where you can begin using the assets you’ve worked so hard to build. However, there’s one important detail that’s easy to overlook: reaching the top doesn’t mean the journey is over. You still have to get down.
Investment Update
A Sideways Summer That Tested Traditional Portfolios
Most forecasts assume the market is going somewhere. Every year starts with a list of them. Where rates will end up. What oil will do. How far stocks can run. Up or down, each one picks a direction.
This summer, the market mostly went nowhere. Stocks stalled after a strong start. Bonds fell at the same time. The part of the portfolio meant to provide stability didn’t.
Navigating that on forecasts would have meant calling three things at once:
- The 10-year Treasury yield breaking above 5%
- Oil rallying hard on top of it.
- Stocks stalling without ever breaking down.
We would rather respond to what markets are doing than depend on calling all three.
This month’s Note looks at a summer that tested traditional portfolios, why the ability to adapt matters more than the ability to predict, and what a systematic investing process does when markets rise, fall, or go nowhere.
But first, here’s a summary of the global asset classes utilized in our portfolios and their exposures for October.
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