Materials stocks and municipal bonds
written by Alex on Monday, June 1st, 2009 at 4:56 am 
We pick the mix of investments that maximizes the expected return while not exceeding a fixed maximum risk.
Stocks have shown a lot of strength in recent weeks. Although broad-based stock index funds have lost over 30% in the past year, they’ve been in a steady uptrend since March. It is now safe to start putting some of our money into stocks. The materials sector has been especially strong, outperforming the broad-based indices. That’s why we’re putting some of our money into it. The rest of our money is going into municipal bonds, which are also doing very well.
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