As a millenial investor who was in university during the financial crisis, nearly my entire investing experience has been in the pampered context of a bull market. Realizing that this can lead to complacency and overconfidence, over the past year I have set out to hedge my portfolio against a future bear market by turning these profits into a more stable, income-producing portfolio. My goal is to compound wealth at a fairly high rate of return (10%+ average annually) while minimizing volatility in my overall portfolio through periodically rebalancing a highly diversified portfolio of assets