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Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Solow & Kitces |
Test Your Tactical IQ One of the most basic decisions a planner must make is whether to follow a passive or active approach to managing client portfolios. Take this quiz to see if you're ready to become a more active asset allocator. |
Financial Advisor January 2005 Marla Brill |
Investment Moves For 2005 Advisors proceed cautiously as interest rates rise and the dollar falls. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Price Controls It's beginning to look a lot like inflation. Or is it? Statistics seem to tell the story, but when it comes to inflation, not everyone agrees how the plot will unfold. |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Marla Brill |
A Fund For Tough Times More advisors are using the Permanent Portfolio Fund as a hedge. The fund balances its position in value-oriented commodity stocks with a 15% allocation to aggressive growth stocks in about a dozen industry groups. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2010: Positivity "We think the economic outlook will be better than the consensus forecast," says Paul Zemsky, New York-based head of asset allocation and multi-manager investments for ING Investment Management. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Robert F. Keane |
Mostly Sunny or Partly Cloudy The economic climate for 2006 looks fair and mild, but a few forecasters see storm clouds on the horizon. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca |
Think Different Here's a scary thought: What if the seeds of last year's market crisis are actually growing taller than before? |
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. |
Investment Advisor January 2008 Kathleen M. McBride |
Built to Last Although their strategies vary, Rob Arnott and his investment advisor peers are hewing to a long-term focus on fundamentals, valuations, costs, and taxes. |
Financial Advisor February 2011 Marla Brill |
Ready For Reflation Several kinds of ETFs should benefit if prices and interest rates begin to rise. |
Financial Advisor December 2007 Alan Lavine |
Cautious Optimism Most equity managers are expecting a soft economy in 2008, but how sluggish it will be is subject to disagreement. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2006 S.J. Caplan |
There WILL Be a Quiz: Weekly Cap Markets Recap Have you been paying attention? Find out with our capital markets roundup and investors' quiz. |
Financial Advisor September 2009 Alan Lavine |
Hedging Your Bets With Gold Gold is seen as a defensive play by some, and a long-term diversification strategy by others. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 Joseph Lisanti |
Girding for Inflation Whether you think inflation is here now or is headed our way, planners should prepare for it. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2011 Daniel Jay Korn |
Outlook 2011: A Modest Proposal Hopefully this year's results will skew more toward boom than gloom. Even so, planners might want to add a few safe havens to clients' portfolios in case the three-peat turns out to be yet another 21st-century bear market. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Paul Menchaca |
Growth Spurts It's still tricky to invest for retirement, but planners are starting to seek out long-term growth. Next trick: convincing skittish clients. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2009 The long-term outlook is brighter than the current vista. Markets have always turned up after downturns and there's no reason to think this pattern will end. |
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. |
Registered Rep. December 3, 2012 Brad Zigler |
Whip Inflation Now With seemingly endless quantitative easing by the Fed, should you plan for the worst? |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2011 Stoyan Bojinov |
Inflation ETF Special: 25 ETF Ideas to Fight Rising Prices There's no silver bullet that is guaranteed to offset inflation, but there are dozens of ETFs that may be useful for those worried about the impact of rising prices on their portfolio. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 |
Happy New Year Our market strategy panelists see a slowing but healthy economy and market. |
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. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2006 An informal survey of investment strategists found an upbeat economic outlook for 2006: Panic and Euphoria... Has Technology's Time Come?... Bond Parsing... Overseas Picture... Fiscal Forecast... |
Financial Advisor February 2012 Marla Brill |
Setting Up For Inflation If the bleak economic scenario plays out the way Rob Arnott envisions, this fund would likely outperform its pure-equity peers. |
Financial Advisor October 2011 Michelle Knight |
Not Your Grandma's Bond Portfolio A dynamic approach to managing fixed-income assets may boost returns and manage interest-rate and inflation risks. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
Foreign Intrigue Financial planners need a passport to follow the money that's flooding into overseas mutual funds, but the wave may be about to break. |
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 October 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
It's a Good Year for Cash With interest rates up and other assets flat or sinking, cash is a winning bet as well as a safe one. |
Financial Advisor December 2005 Alan Lavine |
Playing Two Sides PIMCO's three-year-old StocksPlus Total Return Fund buys S&P 500 futures, then tries to beat the index with bonds. |
Financial Advisor May 2009 David J. Drucker |
Does Asset Allocation Need A Facelift? Has the 2008 stock market changed the rules of asset allocation and how we manage asset volatility? |
BusinessWeek June 19, 2006 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Why The Markets Are So Mercurial Inflation is still a worry. But now traders fret that the Federal Reserve will push rates too far. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2007: A Year for the Big Guys? An economic slowdown is likely to spur a flight to quality, as investors shift their focus to the most powerful domestic large caps. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
Fancy Footwork Just as the economy is expected to muddle through this year, consensus forecasts indicate parallel plodding in the financial markets, with unspectacular returns for stocks and bonds. Financial planners seeking to thrive in 2005 may need to develop new tactics. |
Registered Rep. January 4, 2010 Brad Zigler |
Is There a New Normal in Your Future? There was a time when applying the word "new" to a product was a surefire way to stimulate buying. Not so with economic theory. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Are Advisors Making Smart ETF Choices? It looks like many of them are jumping on the bandwagon. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Marion Asnes |
The New, New Economy The real estate crisis is still going on. Oil prices have skyrocketed. The financial markets are swinging like pendulums. Welcome to the new economy. |
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Peter Schiff |
The Bear Truth Bullish investors are seeing the markets through overly rose-colored glasses |
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 September 1, 2010 Peng Chen |
The Inflation Scenario Both traditional stocks and bonds are quite likely to suffer in high inflationary environments, while inflation-indexed bond returns tend to be quite stable across different inflation environments. |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Fuss & Hyll |
What You Don't Know About TIPS Are Treasury Inflation Protected Securities always tops? Not in a low inflation environment. |
The Motley Fool June 6, 2008 Brian Richards |
Roundtable: Dow 10,000? After topping the 14,000 mark last October, the Dow now sits around 12,300. What should investors make of the drop? Where is the market headed from here? |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Why The Fed's Cut Won't Spark Inflation Housing woes, tighter credit, and a softer labor market should douse inflation. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Fund Manager Profile Taking the Global View: Jeff Knight leads a standout fund at beleaguered mutual fund group Putnam. |
Financial Planning July 28, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor No one can know with certainty what interest rates are going to do. But understanding how various broad environments are likely to impact the investment landscape helps us make well-reasoned portfolio allocation decisions that don't depend on getting rates exactly right. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Commodities futures have unique diversification properties and, on average, perform well whenever stocks and bonds have done poorly. |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2007 |
Where to Put Your Cash in 2008 Here's the best advice of seven stock market analysts. |
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 November 1, 2010 David E. Adler |
The Deflation Scenario Most planners keep their eyes on inflation. But the Fed has worries in the opposite direction: Once unthinkable, deflation is now a threat. |