Fixed Income Bond Fund Portfolios

The following portfolios are for fixed income and conservative investors. They are customized specifically for major brokerages. They only use no load and no transaction fee low minimum requirement funds available in a brokerage.

These portfolios select one or two top performing funds each month. However, a fund will not be sold until it has been held for at least its minimum holding period.

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Total Return Bond Fund Portfolios for Brokerages

Total Return Bond Fund Portfolios In Your Overall Investments

To make sure a mutual fund based model portfolio in sync with your own account to satisfy fund minimum holding period requirement, please customize a new portfolio instead of following a portfolio.

 

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Total Return Bond Fund Portfolios

These portfolios are customized to each major brokerage.

Fidelity Total Return Bond	We periodically monitor less than a dozen of high quality candidate funds available in Fidelity. Most funds' managers are Morningstar's Manager of The Year. The portfolio further chooses top funds from these candidate funds to invest monthly.	For Fidelity
Schwab Total Return Bond	We periodically monitor less than a dozen of high quality candidate funds available in Schwab. Most funds' managers are Morningstar's Manager of The Year. The portfolio further chooses top funds from these candidate funds to invest monthly.	For Schwab
TD Ameritrade Total Return Bond	We periodically monitor less than a dozen of high quality candidate funds available in TD Ameritrade. Most funds' managers are Morningstar's Manager of The Year. The portfolio further chooses top funds from these candidate funds to invest monthly. NOTE: these funds have 6 month minimum holding period requirement.	For TD Ameritrde
Etrade Total Return Bond Plan	We periodically monitor less than a dozen of high quality candidate funds available in Etrade. Most funds' managers are Morningstar's Manager of The Year. The portfolio further chooses top funds from these candidate funds to invest monthly. NOTE: these funds 3 minimum holding period requirement.	For Etrade
FolioInvesting Total Return Bond	We periodically monitor less than a dozen of high quality candidate funds available in Folioinvesting. Most funds' managers are Morningstar's Manager of The Year. The portfolio further chooses top funds from these candidate funds to invest monthly. NOTE: these funds 3 minimum holding period requirement.	For Folioinvesting

Latest Portfolio Performance

Returns (AR: Annualized Return) include dividend/interest reinvested.
More detailed portfolio info.

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What to do for your brokerage IRA or taxable investments?

Pick a plan from those listed above

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Manage your own brokerage account :

your followed or customized portfolios are updated daily.

You will receive regular monthly or quarterly re-balance emails for these portfolios.

You then use the re-balance/holdings information to make transactions in your brokerage account.

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Asset Allocation Model Portfolios

Each plan has Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) moderate and Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) moderate model portfolios. The portfolios' holdings are decided by their strategy's allocation and fund selection from the candidate funds.

Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) : (Free)

based on main stream Modern Portfolio Theory that emphasizes diversification and portfolio re-balancing.

Good for: Armchair or beginning investors, prefer mainstream and passive role.

Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) : (Premium: basic subscription )

based on major diversified asset trends to dynamically adjust risk assets (such as stocks) and fixed income (bonds) allocations.

Good for: Active or experienced investors, risk averse to avoid loss.

Not clear on how the strategies work? See More Details>>

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