Sunday, January 6, 2013

401k Updates

I decided to put more of my money to work in my 401k.  Previously, I was about 50% in cash (or money market accout) for the past year.  

My changes include 50% of my cash allocation (25% of account) into international/global funds.  I think that global markets, Eurpoe particularly, has bottomed in 2012 an will start a new bull market.  I expect it to outperform the US markets in the next year.

My other change was to reallocate more cash into small cap funds.  I took about 10% of cash (5%) of account and placed it into small cap value and growth funds.  Small cap indexes recently broke out to all time highs.  While there might be some short term pull-back, I think that small caps might lead and outperform the large cap indexes.

That's all for now.  I still have some cash that I will use to buy on a 5-10% dip in major indexes this year.

~JP