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Financial Advisor February 2008 Bruce A. Weininger	Out Of The Style Box You have a much greater chance of improving performance by using a smaller number of managers who have shown an ability to outperform the market -- as long as you give them the freedom to invest in their best ideas, unconstrained by the style-box police.
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.
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.
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.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Callahan & Howard	Outside the Box Style boxes place artificial constraints on portfolio managers that may lead to underperformance. Instead, the authors argue, we should set managers free to pursue their unique styles.
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 Advisor January 2006 Sydney LeBlanc	Breaking The Mold The new SMA environment will allow advisors to demonstrate in a truly value-added fashion that they bring a great deal of expertise to the table from which clients can benefit.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell	Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets
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 Advisor December 2004 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Challenging Your Most Basic Assumptions The new book The Investment Think Tank makes you rethink some fundamental financial advisory principles. With its unique blend of the theoretical, practical and futuristic financial ideas, the book is sometimes controversial but never boring.
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Carl Resnick	ETFs: The Ideal Asset Allocation Tool? True diversification has become the primary focus of smart advisors. To the benefit of these advisors and their clients, a wide range of well-built exchange-traded funds has emerged to represent just about every asset class available.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Scott A. MacKillop	MPT -- A Tool, Not An Answer Improving the data we use and how we evaluate results will lead us to the best conclusions for clients.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Maya Ivanova	Self Improvement In the recent supplement to the 2005 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Survey, many advisors recognize that simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. They're continuously examining their business plans and investment processes to look for improvements.
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.
Financial Advisor March 2010 Alan Lavine	Markowitz: MPT Holds Up Modern portfolio theory never claimed diversification would help during financial crises.
Financial Advisor October 2008 Jerry Wagner	Bonus Copy: Are Investment Returns a "Crazy Quilt"? Callan Charts, or the Periodic Table of Investment Returns, provide advisors with a graphical guide to better returns with less risk than asset allocation portfolios.
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 August 1, 2008 William Harding	A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments.
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Financial Advisor May 2004 C. Michael Cart	Risk Control: The Next Act For ETFs New Exchange-traded funds are being created as strategies and technology are developed.
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.
Financial Advisor October 2005 Matthew Hougan	Shorting ETFs Gets Sold Short Although many advisors are reluctant to short exchange-traded funds (ETFs), it's important to remember that ETFs are less risky on the short side than individual stocks, as they are not susceptible to short squeezes.
Financial Advisor March 2010 Mary Rowland	Winners And Losers In A Lost Decade REITs and emerging market investments were among the few investments that came out ahead in the past decade.
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2003 Art Gering	Undefined Contributions Although a large number of companies invest in real estate in their defined benefit plans, many deny their employees the same advantages in their 401(k) plans.
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.
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.
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 September 2008 Alan Lavine	Tenth Time Around When financial advisors make decisions, they are typically also reviewing tons of investment reports for ideas and insights. Each has his favorite sources for inspiration.
Investment Advisor December 2008 James J. Green	The Failure of Asset Allocation Asset allocation can explain past market performance, but not predict which allocation will work in the future.
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Financial Advisor August 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Star Appeal In a few short years, Morningstar has improved its advisor platform so much that it truly has become an "office."
Investment Advisor April 2009 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Timing Is Everything Now that (nearly) all asset classes have sunk, advisors are rethinking their investment strategies.
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Daniel Thurmaier	Boring Is Beautiful As investors' nerves fray, typically ho-hum mutual fund classes suddenly became sexy as they calmly stay the course, seemingly oblivious to crashing housing markets and lenders gone wild.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Jeff Joseph	Venture Populist: Private Practice Advisors could improve their value proposition and their clients' portfolios by developing private venture investing competency.
Investment Advisor January 2008 Andrew Lucas	The Private Equity Solution Private equity can provide benefits for your clients and it can add a new dimension to your practice. Before you direct clients into a private equity fund, a pooled asset fund with other advisors or direct investment should be considered.
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.
Financial Advisor June 2004 Kevin M. Wilson	Why Value Beats Growth Portfolios using asset allocation combined with value investing produce better financial results. How should you advise clients to invest?
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Smoothing the Path When comparing active and passive management, financial planners should look at the performance of the whole portfolio. What you find may surprise you.
Investment Advisor February 2009	A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks.
Registered Rep. June 10, 2011 Diana Britton	Pershing: Getting Client Assets Off the Sidelines Though the market has been in recovery mode for some time, many investors are still afraid to dive back in and are holding their cash on the sidelines. To get them back in the game, advisors should reset future expectations.
Registered Rep. December 22, 2009 Stan Luxenberg	Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification.
Investment Advisor September 2008	21st Century Asset Allocation Over the past several years, institutional investors increasingly have opted to allocate a portion of their portfolios to alternative investments as a way to smooth out market volatility. This trend is now spreading to the retail marketplace.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2010 Amanda B. Kish	Why You're Not Beating the Market All stocks seem to be moving in tandem. Actively managed mutual funds have been one of the primary victims of this flight from equity, with $191 billion pulled from equity funds in 2008 and 2009, according to Investment Company Institute data.
Financial Advisor May 2004 Joel Bruckenstein	Software With A Conscience A new online service, IWF Advisor from IdealsWork Financial, may offer advisors a solution to the tricky problem of finding a cost-effective way to align a client's social agenda and financial needs.
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.
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Investment Advisor February 2010 Robert F. Keane	The Green Advisor: Adding ESG to Asset Allocation New portfolios aim to help advisors align values and diversification.
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