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The Motley Fool
June 29, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
How to Beat Risk Before It Beats You In putting together a lifetime financial plan for your investments, you want to balance the risks you take against the returns you earn. But, figuring out the right way to accomplish that task is easier said than done.   |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Make These 4 Moves and Stay Panic-Free You don't know what's coming, but you can prepare for it. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Why Mega-Cap Stocks Are Not Enough Before you jump into the biggest, most popular index funds that are based on the S&P 500 index, think twice. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2007
Doug Short |
Beating the S&P 500 If your portfolio gained less than 15.8% last year, perhaps it's time to think outside the box. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
You're Smarter Than the S&P 500 Maybe you can beat an index fund, but don't get cocky; remember, hindsight doesn't count. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Why These Big Winners Are Really Losers Some stocks have done extremely well during the rally, but they fell so much in the lead-up to the crisis that they're still trading well below 2007 levels. |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How Investors Beat the Great Recession A simple strategy brought many back to even. Many investors use asset allocation strategies to spread their risk across various types of investments. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Smart Move Will Save Your Retirement Leaving your investments alone while continuing to make new contributions is more likely to pay off in the long run. |
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. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
4 Smart Solutions for a Risky Portfolio After a major recovery that has sent stocks up nearly 30% from their recent lows, now's a good time to catch your breath and make sure your portfolio will act the way you want it to going forward. |
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. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Kunal Kapoor |
'Lost Decade' May Yet Happen if Investors Aren't Careful Investors who mistakenly viewed the past 10 years as a lost cause made an elementary mistake and they're about to do it again. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Scott A. Leonard |
The Smaller, the Better Rumors that the small-cap effect is dead are most definitely premature. By focusing on the smallest of the small caps, financial advisors can see that the small-cap effect appears to be alive and well. You just need to know where to look for it. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Index Funds Win Again Index funds are cheap, easy, and they reliably outperform many other funds. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Do-It-Yourself Way to Save Your Retirement If you want to protect yourself from stock market losses, doing it yourself can help you save a bundle. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Temma Ehrenfeld |
Indexing Works Even fans of index funds often believe they do worse than funds with active managers during bear markets. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Market-Beating Returns Made Simple This twist on the old index fund does well. Equal-weight funds have done quite well compared to traditional index funds over periods of several years. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Do This and Avoid the Next Lost Decade One simple thing is all it would have taken. Even if major indexes can't rebalance, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Do This Before You Buy (or Sell) the Rally With the downs and ups of the market, how much of your money should you have in stocks right now? If you look at the rally and say "as much as possible," then you haven't learned as much from the bear market as you should have. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Your Index Fund Is Making a Bad Investment Funds have to do what the indexes they track do. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2008
Brian Richards |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2007
Robert Brokamp |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2009
Aaron Pressman |
Allocation Funds Are on the Rise New funds that switch among different asset classes are gaining popularity with investors tired of constant loss. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
The New Stocks Where can financial planners seek those historic equity market returns without the painful setbacks? One place to start is in the bond market. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
No Rally Can Help These Stocks For many investors, the losses they've suffered have been so bad that there's almost no possibility they'll ever earn back what they've lost. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Best Investment for the Next 40 Years Simple math says bonds can't outperform stocks forever. |
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 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
April 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Investments That Don't Stand a Chance An active fund that only seeks to match its benchmark is a waste of your money. If that's all a fund can offer, you're much better off going with the index fund. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen |
Valuable Property It turns out that giving real estate a place in your overall portfolio is an essential step toward optimal diversification. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
James Picerno |
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2010 |
The 5-Minute Guide to Allocating Your Assets How to choose between stocks and bonds, small caps and large caps ... our Rule Your Retirement team created these three model portfolios, which you can use as a starting point for cooking your own investment soup. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Invest Well or Your Kids Will Blame You Many investors have turned to 529 plans to help with their college savings. Yet the bear market has had a huge impact on these savings vehicles as well. What can you do now? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
How Economists Invest The American Economic Association has invested its portfolio of nearly $18 million in ways that leave something to be desired. |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
The Hidden Danger Inside Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again. The recent flight to safety in the fixed-income markets reveals the distinctions among different types of bonds. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Doug Short |
The Next Bear Market There's no official definition of a bear market, but most analysts reserve the designation for a 20% decline from a recent peak in a major index. There have been eight official bears since 1950; is the next one coming soon? |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn |
True Value How did value funds post superior numbers for the trailing 10 years? The short answer is that they held few technology stocks and emerged from the burstng tech bubble with a lead they held through the decade, says Michael Breen, associate director of mutual fund analysis for Morningstar. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2012
Michael R. Grupe |
The Big Idea: Weatherproof Portfolios Many investors are more interested in avoiding losses than reaping gains. Dividends from REITs can help protect portfolios from downside risk. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Brian Richards |
The Investing Phenomenon You Ought to Know by Now Are you invested in equities based outside the U.S. of A.? Well, you should be. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2010
Stan Luxenberg |
Are Index Funds' Distorting Markets? With money pouring into index funds and ETFs, passive portfolios are distorting markets, harming many investors. Index funds are creating disturbing conditions in a variety of asset classes, including emerging markets, small stocks, and commodities. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
How Risky Are Your Stocks? To know what the future may bring, you can't just look at past returns. |
