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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. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
Leaning Toward Lockstep Correlations between U.S. and foreign markets are increasing, but adherents insist that foreign investing can still reduce risk. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Different Strokes This summer's volatile markets proved that allocating funds among uncorrelated assets really does work. |
Financial Advisor August 2010 James Picerno |
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
Investment Advisor April 2010 Robert J. Lindner |
Expert's Corner: Putting It in Neutral Advisors can improve a client's portfolio by using a market neutral strategy. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 James Picerno |
The First Step There are no easy answers for asset allocation, but at least there's a practical starting point. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 William Harding |
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Yale Tale The venerable Yale Endowment Fund serves as a performance benchmark for pension managers, endowment fund managers and money managers. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Alternative Investments With the Best Payoff Some nontraditional investments can provide valuable diversification in a portfolio. But choose wisely. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2013 Jeff Tjornehoj |
Are Alts Making the Grade? The most recent crop of alt fund contenders are performing like a classroom full of underachievers. |
Financial Advisor March 2010 Alan Lavine |
Markowitz: MPT Holds Up Modern portfolio theory never claimed diversification would help during financial crises. |
Financial Advisor December 2008 Andrew Gluck |
Managing The In-Betweens Portfolio manager and author Mark Kritzman says it's important to manage for market turbulence as well as strength. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Somnath Basu |
The VIX Fix Where in the past there was a sense of sanity, today each morning brings only apprehensions about how to understand and manage market volatility. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Art Gering |
A Perfect Fit Over time, REITs have proven to be the missing piece for building a well-diversified portfolio. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Mark Willoughby |
Volatility Bites For those who had begun to underestimate the impact volatility can have on managing investment portfolios, the events of 2007 and early 2008 have been a sobering reminder. |
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Ben Warwick |
Investment Advisor's January 2011 Issue: Ben Warwick Won't Compromise on Getting Returns. Period Clients must take risks to make returns. Here's the right way to do it in 2011. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2003 |
For Diversification, It Isn't Home Sweet Home Jack Goodman provides economic and demographic research to the real estate industry through his firm, Hartrey Advisors. Goodman shared his thoughts on the diversification benefits of home ownership versus REITs. |
Financial Advisor May 2004 Gene Swanzey |
Hedge Funds Can Complement Modern Portfolio Theory Active management can result in higher risk-adjusted returns. |
AskMen.com April 14, 2002 Rashmikant Patel |
Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs... |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Robert J. Lindner |
Subtraction Through Addition How adding risk to a client's portfolio can sometimes reduce overall risk. |
On Wall Street May 1, 2010 Gerald Buetow |
In Defense Of Modern Portfolio Theory As stock markets plunged worldwide and investment portfolios took it on the chin, revisionists sought to expound on what they deemed were the inherent flaws of the deeply entrenched MPT. In short, the theory became the scapegoat for the failure of diversification. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Joseph A. Tomlinson |
No Sucker's Bet? If there were a prize for the most disparaged asset class, it would likely go to bonds. And the most disparaged bonds would almost certainly be Treasuries. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Tim Knepp |
Question Assumptions It's time to ask ourselves whether the blunt tools of broad asset class definitions and traditional asset allocations provide an adequate defense against the complex risk and interaction of today's markets. |
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. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen |
Material World The natural resources mutual fund sector has a number of attractions, but one characteristic that is probably not immediately evident to many investors is that these funds do not correlate closely with broad stock indexes. This, it turns out, is a valuable feature. |
Investment Advisor January 2010 James Damschroder |
Delivering Diversification An approach that parses diversification from the rubric of risk gives advisors a new element of control. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 James J. Green |
Danger & Opportunity: Futures Education Michael Bulley, senior VP for research and risk management for Steben & Co. in Rockville, Maryland, a firm that has specialized in managed futures funds for 20 years, on what you should know about managed futures. |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2007 Brian Hindo |
The Portfolio Balancing Act In turbulent times like these, the "rules" for asset allocation often go out the window. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Christopher M. Wright |
The Investment Landscape Martin Cohen of Cohen & Steers and Jim Keagy of Barclays Global Investors comment on the strong run the REIT equity market has been on and where REITs as an investment alternative are heading. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Horn & Sturiale |
Do Your Investments Play Nice? Advisers and consultants spend a great deal of time helping retirement plan clients construct investment portfolios. Here's a quantitative look at diversification using the Schwab Portfolio Diversification Measure. |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Special Issue 2005 Christopher M. Wright |
Global REIT Indexing--The Shape of Things to Come An interview with two industry experts on the impact of indexing on global real estate to raise the profile of the FTSE EPRA/NAREIT series among investors worldwide. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 Gene Fama |
Small-World Investing Do international stocks really give you higher returns with less risk? |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Rick Adkins |
What I Learned About Portfolio Rebalancing Why does conditional rebalancing work so well? Common sense: It allows the markets, not a calendar, to dictate when it is time to rebalance one's portfolio. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Perfect Portfolio Investment portfolios should include a wide variety of diverse assets. Each one adds an important dimension to the portfolio because it behaves differently. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Christopher M. Wright |
A Defined Benefit Pension Plans Reap the Benefits of REITs... REITs Shine in Research Studies... Benefits of REIT Investing... True Diversification... etc. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Joan Warner |
The Case For Portable ALPHA As international markets become more correlated, the need for financial advisers and money managers to access greater diversification -- while hedging risk -- could make this strategy investing's next hot model. |
Real Estate Portfolio Mar/Apr 2004 Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Jeremy Grantham Real Estate Portfolio recently asked celebrated investment manager and noted bear Jeremy Grantham, chairman of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, to share his thoughts on the capital markets and REIT stocks. |
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Matthew Lemieux |
Fine-Tuning a Portfolio Gets Year off to a Good Start The beginning of a year offers an opportunity to see how investments align with life goals. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 O'Toole & Steiny |
The Perfect Process A disciplined approach to managing client assets is at the heart of financial planning. How does yours stack up? |
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. |
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. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
Consistency Matters What have we learned from analyzing four decades of asset class returns? Just this: An equally weighted, multi-asset approach to building investment portfolios is the model of consistency through booms and busts. |