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Read this The Ultimate Buy and Hold Strategy 2017 - Paul Merriman | Paul Merriman

This is done by the numbers and is about minimizing risk and maximizing return and is fairly in line with Bogle, I believe. The guy used to manage investing for a living and is now retired. He is all about educating people now. He is all about passive index funds and diversification. He backs it up with lots of numbers. It makes a lot of sense.

the idea comes down to this to maximize diversity and minimize risk, 50/50 on foreign and domestic, 50/50 on large cap and small cap, 50/50 on growth and value. He has a couple of different recommendations depending upon if it's a tax deferred account or a taxable account (adding REITs or not).