Frequent shifting of household portfolio composition may erode wealth due to poor market timing and transaction costs …. If household preferences are stable, the optimal wealth maximizing strategy is periodically rebalancing to maintain a … relatively constant ratio of investment assets to wealth from year to year. However, some households may fail to rebalance, or …

Frequent shifting of household portfolio composition may erode wealth due to poor market timing and transaction costs …. If household preferences are stable, the optimal wealth maximizing strategy is periodically rebalancing to maintain a … relatively constant ratio or investment assets to wealth from year to year. However, some households may fail to rebalance, or …

This paper examines the association between stock market return expectations and financial wealth holdings of older … of positive stock market return were positively associated with greater financial wealth holdings among households. Our … financial wealth holdings of households. African Americans, Hispanics, and other races were negatively associated with the …

-diversified, since they own relatively small amounts of financial wealth and hold a few types of financial assets. Furthermore, risky … likely to invest in financial assets as their income increases, but the share of financial assets in total wealth remains … subdued as household income increases, since at that point real estate wealth becomes dominant. Finally, we discover that …