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Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Escape Is Rarely the Safest Bet Don't tell Brandywine Fund that fleeing stocks for cash is a safe, conservative maneuver. Several mutual funds now have a substantial portion of their assets in cash. Is this a good idea?   |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
Housewarming Come April, Merrill Lynch will remove its famous name from the brokerage's own funds to relaunch them under a new (as yet to be determined) name to compete on their own. But all the major wirehouses have struggled to sell their proprietary mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Rubber-Band Man For funds that focus on one style box, the choices could be slim. But flexible managers have freedom to maneuver in flat markets. Among the most wide-ranging performers are Julius Baer International Equity and its sibling Julius Baer Global. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
The Worthy Tired of lackluster performance, investors have been ignoring large-cap domestic funds. Instead, foreign funds are all the rage. But, there are still good reasons for many investors to consider active large-cap managers. |
Financial Advisor
June 2005
Alan Lavine |
Market-Neutral Funds For Sideways Markets Inconsistent past performance means advisors must proceed with caution. Unfortunately, the funds with the best longer-term track records are closed to new investors. Nevertheless, their performance is worth noting in case they reopen. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Look Over There, but Beware Though foreign shares can help to diversify portfolios, some advisers are wary of the sudden move abroad. International stocks can be volatile. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Convertible Opportunities With prices down now, this could be an opportune moment to build a long-term position in convertibles. Despite the recent woes, convertibles have produced an impressive long-term record. |
Investment Advisor
April 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Anything but Middling Munder's Mid-Cap Core Growth Fund's Tony Dong has prospered by finding growth wherever. |
AskMen.com
April 14, 2002
Rashmikant Patel |
Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs... |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Alpha Dogs To protect clients, financial advisors should consider mutual funds with steady results and strong risk-adjusted returns. Sounds obvious, right? But doing so may mean taking a pass on a fund with gaudy returns. Big returns often equate big risks. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
Do-It-Yourself Funds of Funds The real deal breakers for financial advisors with wealthy clients who have sophisticated needs are that hedge funds tend to be illiquid and lack transparency. Here's how to use mutual funds that use hedge fund strategies to solve this problem. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
This Year's Model Now that technology is out of favor, new specialists have appeared, promising to produce returns in erratic markets. With the U.S. trade deficit swelling, several funds offer protection against the falling dollar. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
Growth or Value? While your clients may still have bad memories about aggressive funds, you must remind them that they should consider aggressive choices and that the right funds can provide important diversification and actually help them find the sweet spot on the efficient frontier. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Looks Like a Hedge Fund, Smells Like For clients who cannot --- or will not --- try hedge funds, there is a compelling alternative: mutual funds that follow hedge-like strategies. Here are some options. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
The Problem of Success If you overweighted clients' small-cap stock funds exposure a few years back, you're looking like a genius. But what now? Anyone seeking a small-cap choice faces a hard problem: Nearly all the top candidates have been closed. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2005
Israelsen & Clement |
Of Stocks and Funds Financial advisers need to explain to their clients that diversification can be a double-edged sword; protection against loss can sometimes insulate against return. Here's a performance comparison of individual stocks vs. equity funds in 2004. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Ilana Polyak |
Evasive Action Steve Romick, manager of the FPA Crescent fund, is obsessed with protecting capital. |
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Marla Brill |
Taking Cover In Cash The manager of the FPA Crescent Fund is confounded by the financial markets. In his 18 years of investing, this is the most difficult time for finding securities that seem appealing. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2003
Mathew Emmert |
REIT-allocate Your Portfolio A look at the diversification and income-producing benefits of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), along with some conservative strategies for putting REITs to work in your portfolio. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Another Ride Are advisers and their clients really ready to get on the technology fund roller coaster again? |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
Doug Short |
Competing With the S&P 500 If you want to increase your chance of beating the S&P 500 year after year, one good way is to broaden your investment choices to include a generous mix of smaller caps and international equities. Mutual funds and ETFs offer an easy means to get that degree of breadth. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn |
Back to Normal Financial planners might not have to master the minutiae of convertibles securities. But they should know if a convertibles fund is more likely to act like stocks or like bonds. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Jeremy Siegel The Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania weighs in on his long-term bullish outlook and the prospects he sees for REIT stocks. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2005
Nathan Slaughter |
Mutual Fund Meltdown Have you assembled your funds in a carefully orchestrated portfolio or in a haphazard collection? Collecting mutual funds is not a safe pastime. It's a financial disaster waiting to happen. |
BusinessWeek
April 12, 2004
Lauren Young |
Where Investors Hunt For Refuge As the bull struggles, they're playing it safer at home -- and investing more abroad. A look at where the money is flowing to, and the outlook from some mutual fund managers. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Stuart Chaussee |
Trading Places It's time for a growth rebound. The argument for growth rests on the reversion-to-the-mean concept. Overly simplified, the concept means that when stocks (or any asset class) outperform their historical average, that asset class enters a period of underperformance and vice versa. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
A Question of Size If there is safety in numbers and comfort in size, fund investors are now putting their need for reassurance on parade. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2013
Stan Luxenberg |
A Tactical Turnaround When the market crashed in 2008, most stock funds collapsed. But a handful avoided serious losses, shifting to cash or taking other defensive measures. The winners attracted assets. |
Registered Rep.
December 27, 2005
Stan Luxenberg |
Merrill Funds To Change Name In the latest move, the Wall Street giant announced that it intends to change the name of Merrill Lynch Investment Management's funds to -- well, that has yet to be determined and won't be until sometime in early 2006. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Stan Luxenberg |
Calming the Terrified Client For most clients, however, there are options more lucrative than principal-protection funds that provide a respectable return without assuming the risk of straight equity funds. Consider, for example, closed-end municipal bond funds. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2005
Robert Brokamp |
Stocks for the Really Long Term Yes, stocks are the long-term investment of choice. But at any price? |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2004
Mathew Emmert |
Broken Bonds Even if you've just experienced a painful breakup with the stock market, don't go falling in love with bonds just because you're on the rebound. The plain truth is that looking for love in today's bond market could lead to another broken heart. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
Susan B. Weiner |
The Middle Ground Mid-cap stocks have yet to command as much respect from advisers and investors as their small- and large-cap peers. Now mid-cap stocks find themselves in an unusual place -- the spotlight -- after a strong showing in 2005. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Marla Brill |
Bargain Scavenger Steve Romick's contrarian style has helped FPA Crescent Fund outperform over the long term. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Hidden Measures How did U.S. stocks perform versus U.S. equity mutual funds last year? The market-cap bias in measuring stock returns tends to obscure the true return picture. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2004
Dayana Yochim |
Need a Yawner Investment? If you're in the market for a safe little something for your portfolio, buy bonds. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Roger Gibson Roger Gibson is a nationally recognized expert in asset allocation and portfolio design. In a recent interview he discusses among other things, diversification and where REITs fit into his clients' portfolios. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Nest Eggs in Multiple Baskets Increasingly, employers have begun offering life cycle funds, which include broad mixes of stocks and bonds. By picking one life cycle choice, an investor can hold a nicely diversified 401(k) portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
March 2004
Marla Brill |
Was Last Yearis Rally A Headfake? Jeremy Grantham says yes, and thinks the bear market will return in 2005. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2005
Ilana Polyak |
Fund Manager Profile: What, No Bonds? An investor who wants to hold cash generally doesn't do so in a bond fund. Yet that's just what shareholders of $2.1 billion FPA New Income have done in recent years, as the fund's cash position has grown steadily higher. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Callahan & Howard |
Boxes Are Not Classes Advisors who use style boxes as proxies for asset classes are performing a disservice to clients. Here's why characteristic boxes are not asset classes and allocating among various characteristic boxes is useless at best. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2005 |
Think Thrice Before Dividing in Thirds Portfolio allocations don't come in one-size-fits-all. A more sensible approach is to consider investment timeframes and, of course, what you can tolerate in terms of market volatility. |
Financial Advisor
October 2005
David Reilly |
Is Risk Really A Four Letter Word? Once esoteric investing strategies, such as managed currency and commodity futures, real estate, short selling, arbitrage and event-driven strategies, allow portfolio risk management to be taken to the next level. Advisers, take note. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Stan Luxenberg |
The Smart Way to Use Index Funds Now In the cold light of the bear market, advisors have discovered inherent flaws in the indices and the funds that track them. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Callahan & Howard |
Risky Business The primary goal of financial advisors is to make life less risky for clients. But using style boxes to determine risk in a portfolio is a fool's errand. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Grove & Prince |
The Affluent Are Searching for Relief in Alternatives The rich shouldn't care if it's a bull or bear market. That's because the rich have so many investment options -- they can go completely short, or pick a cocktail of alternative investments, that, theoretically, could hedge away risk. Surveys show the affluent are doing exactly that. |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
Lewis Braham |
Building A Focused Fund Of Your Own Portfolios of under 50 stocks have outrun the market with less risk. Here's how they do it. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Geoff Considine |
Not Without Risk Any discussion of whether the theoretical constructs of asset allocation and diversification broke down must start with a reasonable estimate of what they were supposed to provide. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Investments With the Best of Both Worlds Choose investments that are winners all the way around. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let's take a quick look at some of the best hybrid, or balanced, mutual funds in the business today. |
BusinessWeek
August 15, 2005 |
Don't Forget Home Equity To business professor Dean Gatzlaff, your home should be part of any asset allocation plan. |
