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A Brief History of a Stupid Investor If you want to increase your wealth, if you want to protect your wealth, and if you want to parlay that wealth into a long retirement, an intelligently created and maintained asset allocation is the way to go. |
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A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified. |
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Through Thick and Thin Balanced funds provide investors with diversification within the confines of a single investment vehicle by holding a portfolio of highly uncorrelated asset classes. |
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A Yale Tale The venerable Yale Endowment Fund serves as a performance benchmark for pension managers, endowment fund managers and money managers. |
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Act Now to Save Your Retirement Here's what you can do today to make sure your retirement is the one you've worked so hard to achieve. |
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The Simple Strategy That Could Save Your Portfolio A very simple strategy of (1) thinking about your portfolio holistically and (2) diversifying into quality investments that don't perfectly correlate can really have an effect on your bottom line. |
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Will You Live Off Your House? The historical record shows that relying on your home to do more than house you in retirement can be risky. |
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Investment Portfolio Survival Test If you have clients who have already retired, make sure their portfolios can absorb the most violent shocks. |
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Your Retirement Has Been Obliterated The Great October Panic blew a big hole in a lot of people's retirement plans. But as long as you've got time -- and even people in retirement have decades left to plan for -- there's always hope. |
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