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Proposition Three The number of target-date funds continues to grow, but there remains only one set of benchmarks. Here are three proposed indexes to fill the void.   |
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September 1, 2007
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Missing The Target? The asset allocation timeline for target-date funds may be too aggressive for many investors. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2008
Craig L. Israelsen |
2010, A Fund Odyssey The first target-date funds were introduced in 1994. Back then, a target date of 2010 -- the first major target date -- seemed extremely far away. But here we are, just 14 months from 2010. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen |
Send in the Clones? Target-date funds are proliferating, and they're astonishingly similar. Sadly, they're not astonishingly excellent. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007
Marla Brill |
Do Your Clients' Target Funds Measure Up? How do market watchers come up with apples-to-apples comparisons of target-date funds? The absence of a standardized benchmark has left financial advisors to wade through the burgeoning number of fund choices with only vague and often conflicting guidelines for evaluation. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
Bad Match The poor performance of target-date funds, particularly 2010 funds, as qualified default investment alternatives has not gone unnoticed in Washington. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2008
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Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha and Beta Can a portfolio consisting entirely of beta-producing elements produce alpha? The answer is clearly yes. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Israelsen & Walker |
Right on Target? Life-cycle funds are relatively new. Here are the pros and cons of investing in target-date funds. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
If You Can't Beat the Indexes, Join Them As easy as it is to have an all-index portfolio, you may be curious: Is it a good idea? |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen |
Quasi-Commodities? Here's how energy, precious metals and real estate compare with the entire commodities index as a component of an investment portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Marla Brill |
The New Indexing Maze The mushrooming ETF market has spawned a new breed of indexes that represent a radical departure from traditional benchmarks in both their construction and purpose. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
Israelsen & Walker |
Evening the Odds A significant flaw in many active-versus-passive studies occurs when tallying the number of funds that under- or out-perform an index. Three steps could help level the playing field in the active-versus-passive debate. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Israelsen & McDonough |
Bet Your BIPY In an ongoing quest to refine which strategies work best in the battle between growth and value investments, this article goes further to examine tactical asset allocation approaches using growth indexes. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
Israelsen & McDonough |
Max Your MIPY Advancing the argument for reallocating to the prior year's middle-performing index fund. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Craig L. Israelsen |
Winners by Default Target-date and balanced funds have become the main default options in corporate retirement plans. But which one is better? |
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
October 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
An Age-Old Question Age plays an important role in determining asset allocation. The general consensus is, the older you get, the less risk you should take. |
Investment Advisor
December 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Target Date: Now The future is very bright for the already popular lifecycle funds. Industry experts predict that investment advisors will continue to boost lifecycle funds' popularity. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Leave Your Investments on Autopilot An occasional look can reveal profitable adjustments to your portfolio. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Richard K. Fullmer |
Reducing Retirement Risk How should retirees configure their portfolios for the long term, while not exposing themselves to inappropriate risk? |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen |
Should Clients Avoid Bonds Now? With rates inching upward, some clients may want to skip fixed-income investments entirely. They shouldn't. |
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
September 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Richard A. Ferri |
Mapping Indexes Today's advisors can best serve their clients with a working knowledge of the various index methodologies. Unfortunately, this is no easy task. |
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. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Katherine Reynolds Lewis |
Time to Reevaluate As the government takes a second look at the financial world, it is evaluating whether target-date funds protect investors' -- your clients, whether they are employers or employees -- best interests. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2006
Steve Bergsman |
Indexes: An Investment Strategy or Investment Benchmark While real estate index fund investing remains a niche play, the number of individual funds continues to expand, which means conservative investors or those investors seeking to reduce volatility associated with actively managed funds have more options from which to choose. |
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Target Funds: To or Through? How do you decide when it's the right time to say goodbye to a client's target-date funds - when they reach the specified year or all the way through the retirement years? |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2008
Julie Clarenbach |
A Retirement Portfolio You Can Set and Forget Don't let lifecycle funds target your retirement without taking a very close look at them. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Joseph Lisanti |
You Say Potato, I Say Value Investment professionals should immediately know growth and value strategies when they see them. But in some cases the difference between growth and value has been blurred. How do you benchmark your growth versus value approach? |
Financial Advisor
July 2008
Alan Lavine |
On Target, Or Not Think you can plunk down money on any target date fund as a low-risk way to accumulate retirement savings? Think again. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Allocation Without Borders Vice chairman and CIO of Alliance Bernstein Investment Research & Management Ranji Nagaswami argues that being free to select equities worldwide yields better performance with lower risk. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Marla Brill |
Simple Solutions? Life cycle funds are expanding beyond the 401(k) market to financial advisors. Advisors considering using target date funds, whether on a limited or for a broad swath of clients, need to consider a number of features. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2008
Allen Kenney |
On the Road to Retirement Target date funds are taking a closer look at where retirees will end up, and changes are coming that could pay dividends for REITs. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2005
Josie Raney |
Do Targeted Funds Hit Your Mark? Look before you take the lifecycle leap. If you're a beginning investor, these funds can offer inexpensive, no-fuss, diversification -- provided you choose the one that best suits your investing timeline and tolerance for risk. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
But Don't I Already Own REITs? Broader index shares (e.g. S&P 500 or Russell 2000) do not a REIT allocation make. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Only You Can Make This Crucial Choice As tempting as it may be, don't just pass off responsibility for your investments to someone else. Sometimes you'll get just the results you want, but more often, what you buy won't live up to your expectations. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn |
Weight Watchers New equity indexes, weighed by fundamental factors, are challenging the conventions of passive investing. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Are Your Funds Really Performing? It's not enough to simply pick good mutual funds and hope that your money will grow. You need constant evaluation and comparison to keep your investment program on track. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Lifecycle Investing's Next Step Target-date funds make an old idea new again. The next generation of lifecycle funds are seeking to add value by making continuous shifts among stocks, bonds, and cash, instead of just reducing equity exposure over time. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Jim Otar |
A Matter of Luck Contrary to popular opinion, there's more to portfolio success than the asset allocation decision. As an adviser, you can find peace of mind in recognizing and quantifying the luck factor for individual retirement portfolios. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005 |
New Products Alternatives... Insurance... Mutual Funds... Practice Tools... |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The World's Easiest Retirement Plan Doing anything -- anything at all! -- to prepare for retirement, is better than doing nothing. Read on for our simple plan. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
