Investing in Public Equities: Does it Still Make Sense?

There is a long-standing "conventional wisdom" that says a long-term investment portfolio should be invested 60% in public equities and 40% in bonds. There have been many other variations of this, all usually slanting toward a heavy exposure to public equities. Warren Buffett used to say “90/10” in favor of equities, and the “110 Rule” would have you slowly reduce your equity exposure with age.

But does that sort of portfolio allocation still make sense?

You can read the full article by Christian Faes on Forbes here: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2026/02/25/investing-in-public-equities-does-it-still-make-sense/