Investment Asset Classes: What Do You Really Need?

The Morningstar article Why Investment Complexity Is Not Your Friend points out that out of the thousands of available ETFs and mutuals available, most of them are so narrowly-focused that you really don’t even need to consider them.

Here is their no-nonsense list of “what you need” broken down by “definitely need”, “probably need”, and “don’t need”.

Agree? Disagree? I do believe you can still do quite well over the long run while still keeping things very simple.

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Investment Asset Classes: What Do You Really Need? from My Money Blog.