Any thoughts on the Vanguard Target funds? Target funds are the set it and forget it option to retirement with automatic changes to your portfolio allocations of stocks and bonds over time.
I found the glide path graphic below from the Vanguard website at <https://advisors.vanguard.com/investments/products/vtinx/vanguard-target-retirement-income-fund#overview> interesting.
I'm not a big fan of foreign stocks and bonds due to their low historic returns, but the eggheads at Vanguard are probably right in that they provide diversification against US market losses.
At <https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/vemo/vemo-return-forecasts.html> Vanguard is predicting foreign stocks will outperform domestic ones over the next 10 years. I wonder how accurate Vanguard's market forecasts have been in the past.
I find it interesting that the final portfolio allocation of their Retirement Income fund doesn't kick in until ~10 years into retirement and the chart assumes ...
https://www.morningstar.com/markets/want-invest-successfully-quit-trying-make-sense-it
Invest based on risk tolerance and time till retirement. Set up your portfolio so you can sleep at night. Example VTI and BND and Money market with cash. Tune out the noise on CNBC and Jim Cramer who is a clown by the way. Do not try and time the market it will not work out!