The biggest portfolio construction mistake by pre-retirees

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17 October 2022
| By Laura Dew |
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E&P chief investment officer, Tim Rocks, has detailed the three biggest mistakes made by pre-retirees when it comes to building their investment portfolios.

Rocks said he frequently saw investors make the same mistakes with their portfolios as they were too focused on short-term performance.

Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney, Rocks said: “All mistakes come from one error which is not having the right timeframe, it’s absolutely critical. No-one in pre-retirement should care about their one-year performance. We should all have a timeframe which reflects the timeframe we are going to need those investment and that should be 10 years plus.”

This problem was then manifested in their asset allocation with a preference for holding income stocks.

“We end up with too many stocks or funds that are chosen on the basis of income when you should be thinking about total return and about growth if you don’t need that income in the next year,” he said.

The final mistake was too much focus on liquidity of portfolios. This was demonstrated by the amount of investors who were opting out of investing in early-stage companies or private equity as they were deterred by the liquidity.

“There is a fixation with liquidity when it is not needed. If you are in pre-retirement then thinking you can only go into an asset with daily liquidity is frankly just nuts because all it does is massively reduce your opportunity set.

“The right diversification is having a broad exposure to a range of growth assets, both listed and unlisted.”

 

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