Other portfolio investments besides stocks

[jalanlong]

Just for my interest, how are most people's portfolios broken down in terms of asset classes?  Are most of you in only cash and dividend stocks?  Or are some people doing commodities, gold, bonds etc?

[crimsonghost747]

Essentially it's just cash and stocks for me. I wouldn't mind having some bonds in there too but there just hasn't been any point in owning bonds in the past decade or so, which is essentially the duration of my investment career. If there is a certain commodity that you like, you can also probably find a profitable company who stands to profit from price increases in said commodity. So I may play some commodities once in a while, but that goes through stocks too.