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Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Israelsen & Farr |
Now You See It... Domestic small-cap equity funds, particularly those with a value tilt, are a fundamental component of any well-designed equity portfolio. The trick is finding ones that are for sale.   |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
David Spaulding |
The Measurement Conundrum When it comes to explaining returns to clients, dollar-weighted processes, including the internal rate of return (IRR) calculations, are the way to go. Thankfully, more and more firms are awakening to this fact. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen |
Tales of the Tape When you look at annual returns, stocks, equity mutual funds and indexes tell surprisingly different stories. |
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Raymond Fazzi |
Fund Returns: Theory Vs. Experience Morningstar is well known for its mutual fund star ratings, but later this year the research company will introduce another standard for assessing funds -- by measuring how much of their gains end up in investors' pockets. |
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
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. |
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. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2007
Steve Savage |
Short-Term Slumps Many great managers share common traits, including a willingness to own unpopular names, to make decisions based on long-term analysis and to maintain the discipline to ignore painful shorter-term market swings. This ability to ignore painful shorter-term swings is being tested as we speak. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Investing in Investors There's big business out there for asset managers, and big profits for people investing in asset managers. |
BusinessWeek
August 27, 2009 |
Picking Winners All of these actively managed funds get an A for stewardship from Morningstar, thanks to their top-notch management companies and fees that are below-average for their fund category |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Growth Fund of America Tips the Scales Has this fund gotten too big for its own good? |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Kathleen M. McBride |
Hybrid Vehicles? Mutual funds have brought Main Street into investing and been the lifeblood of most advisors' practices. In the future, will there be a better way to invest? |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
IW 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers -- 2008 Methodology The formula to determine the 50 best U.S. manufacturers factors in revenue growth, profit margins, return on equity, return on assets and asset turnover, and inventory turns. |
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 Advisor
September 2006
Cohen & Overgard |
Asset Allocation And Investor Goals What investors and financial advisors should know about portfolio construction from the first decade of hedge funds. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Investors Miss the Boat Again Don't get left standing on the pier, watching the slow boat to riches sail without you. look to the relatively undervalued corners of the market for opportunities. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2006
Richard S. Lehman |
Inbound Investments U.S. commercial real estate professionals should become familiar with the tax benefits available to inbound international real estate investors. |
Financial Advisor
September 2005 |
A Look At Separate Accounts Large Cap Growth: New Century Investment Management... JAG... Large Cap Value: Cascade Investment Counsel... Clear Asset Management... Large Cap Blend: TCW... Harris Investment Management... etc. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Vanguard Slams the Door In what has become a painful trend for investors chasing hot funds, another popular mutual fund is closing the door to new investors. This time it is Vanguard Strategic Equity Fund. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? |
Financial Advisor
September 2005
William H. Overgard |
The Cornerstone Of The Business Any successful financial adviser knows that trust is what drives the relationship with the investor and ultimately the success of the fee-based advisory business. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2007
Nathan Slaughter |
Don't Do It! When it comes to your mutual funds, though, keep your eyes on the road -- not the rearview mirror. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
John Churchill |
Mutual Fund Performance Overstated, Says Study Actively managed mutual funds have done worse than is generally thought. Those, at least, are the findings of a study released yesterday covering a ten-year period of performance figures reported by Morningstar. |
AskMen.com
February 18, 2002
Rashmikant Patel |
What Kind Of Investor Are You? It is easy to say that you want to make money in the stock market, but the true question is how much you are willing to risk in order to achieve your investment goal... |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2007
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Will Morningstar Miss? In advance of earnings reports, analysts expect mutual fund rater Morningstar to turn in sales and earnings increases. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
White Paper While the asset management industry remains highly profitable overall, five key challenges are putting pressure on firms. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
The Key to Successful Mutual Fund Investing Mutual fund expenses may be one of the best ways to tell whether a fund will outperform or not. |
AskMen.com
August 19, 2001
Rashmikant Patel |
The A To Z Of Successful Investing Having a disciplined and simple approach to investing is what financial planning is all about. I have listed a few rules of thumb that will make you a successful investor... |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 8, 2003 |
Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? I am skeptical of the ability of fund managers to consistently beat the market... I believe that we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund... The mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The Lure of Private Equity -- Part 2 As one can infer from the increasing trend toward private equity investments, the use of private equity provides advantages over other methods of raising corporate capital. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
The Perfect Mutual Fund Portfolio Owning fewer funds just makes sense. But now the question remains -- exactly how many funds do you need to adequately diversify your portfolio? |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2008
Todd Wenning |
This Will Scare You Silly Take a look at some scary annualized returns from index and bond funds, and what you can do to maximize your portfolio's returns. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
Stephen Savage |
When To Sell a Mutual Fund Applying common-sense guidelines is easy; making a real-world decision is often fraught with difficulties. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Alpha Dogs Actively managed mutual funds have generally underperformed their corresponding benchmark indices over time, according to a recent study. |
CIO
August 27, 2014
Lauren Brousell |
Nasdaq Mobile App Makes the Investor Road Show Smoother On-the-go investor relations professionals get a more informative mobile app so they're better prepared for meetings with investors. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2008
Rich Smith |
Morningstar Shines On Let's break down Morningstar's quarterly report and take a look at how all three of their segment's fared individually. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 15, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Albridge Releases Updated Wealth Management Solution Albridge Solutions expanded its Wealth Reporting portfolio accounting and performance reporting solution, which enables financial institutions and advisers to deliver a single view of all of their clients' assets. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2008
Todd Wenning |
This Will Scare You Silly As scary as the current and potential 10-year returns for the S&P sound, investors who added international stocks to their portfolio in 1998 have still come out ahead. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 15, 2003 |
Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? Business leaders and managers who can't recognize public and investor trust as a fundamental requirement of their business should be fired or barred for life... As soon as I can beat the market on my own, I'm out of mutual funds... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Is Every Investor's Biggest Enemy It seems like paying attention to prevailing trends would be a good thing for an investor to do. If you're not careful, though, it can sabotage your investment returns rather than enhance them. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2009 |
Extreme Diversification Over the past three years these tactical asset allocation funds managed to improve returns without taking on much added risk. |
CFO
June 16, 2003
Laton McCartney |
Nothing to Hide Eager to be more transparent, companies are using a range of technologies to communicate with shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Types of Investors: Which Are You? Knowing who you are can help you understand yourself and how you approach making money. Learn about some classifications of investors and which brokerage is right for you. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2006
Seth Jayson |
More Pumping for Manchester Any investors out there think Blue Chip IR has your financial well-being in mind when it shells out $50K to pump an overpriced acquisition machine in the used car biz? |
