{"id":9315,"date":"2016-01-07T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:37:36","slug":"high-stock-ownership-relative-to-assets-512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=9315","title":{"rendered":"High Stock Ownership Relative to Assets (5\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Most middle class people have the bulk of their net worth tied up in a house. It\u2019s not a great investment \u2013 more like a forced savings program \u2013 but considering how bad people are at saving, home ownership carries more positives than negatives.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> One would think the rebound in housing would result in most people having even more of their net worth tied up in a house, but that\u2019s not the case. The general public is heavily invested in the stock market, as a percentage of their assets. It\u2019s not that people aren\u2019t diversified; it\u2019s that they\u2019re much less diversified than historical norms.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Housing values can fluctuation or flat-line, and unless you plan on selling, you don\u2019t care. But fluctuations in a stock portfolio feel much more real and tangible. If the market starts to head south, diversifying out of stocks to get the housing\/stocks balance back in line with historical norms would put additional pressure on the market. <\/span><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/i\/stockpercentofassets010716.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Agree\/Disagree? Comment below. And click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/email-subscribe.cfm\">here<\/a> to join our email list to get reports just like this sent directly to you.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/space.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"1\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leavittbrothers.com\/redirect.cfm?affID=5230\"><img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/banners\/lb-468x60-1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most middle class people have the bulk of their net worth tied up in a house. It\u2019s not a great investment \u2013 more like a forced savings program \u2013 but considering how bad people are at saving, home ownership carries more positives than negatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}