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Financial Planning April 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Still Seeking Stability The challenge today for planners is prudently choosing and utilizing a sufficiently wide variety of asset classes so as to create a truly diversified and stable portfolio -- whether it's for the accumulation phase or the distribution phase of life.
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Nest Egg Survival After spending your working years accumulating money, you face a rude awakening in retirement when that growth is replaced by withdrawal. This drawdown phase might be described as the relentless cracking of the retirement nest egg.
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen	Stay Low Maintaining a low correlation among a portfolio's assets in the distribution phase can help avoid potentially devastating losses.
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen	Seeking Stability Building a tough, strong, resilient and stable retirement portfolio is, very simply, what every retiree wants to do. What is the optimum allocation model to sustain this stability for clients?
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.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	The Math of Recovery Resilience after a loss may be the most important asset a retirement portfolio can offer.
Financial Planning December 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	Disappearing Act In light of the recent market implosion, clients are anxious to make up for lost time (and returns). When their needs in retirement are unrealistic, their portfolios cannot support them. However, the composition of their portfolios can mitigate the blow.
Financial Planning February 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Investment Portfolio Survival Test If you have clients who have already retired, make sure their portfolios can absorb the most violent shocks.
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios.
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 Planning September 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Should Investors Avoid Fixed Income Securities When Interest Rates Rise? Why not test the conventional wisdom that investors should avoid fixed-income securities when interest rates rise?
Financial Planning March 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Bond Analysis: Time to Steer Clear? Learn what the past six decades can tell advisors about future performance.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen	Lost-and Found A well-diversified portfolio would have protected investors during the "Lost Decade" between 2000 and 2009.
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 Planning March 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Small Thoughts The benefit of investing in small U.S. stocks is clear. Over the 42-year period from Jan. 1, 1970, to Dec. 31, 2011, a $10,000 investment in large U.S. stocks would have grown to $507,362.
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Piece by Piece The goal of building a multiasset diversified portfolio is to create better risk-adjusted performance for the investor.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen	Spice It Up Can adding commodities to a diversified investment portfolio boost performance without adding extra risk? Read on.
Financial Advisor May 2012 Bill Bengen	How Much Is Enough? The father of the 4 1/2% rule for retirement portfolio withdrawals analyzes its past, present and future performance.
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 Planning March 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen	A Yale Tale The venerable Yale Endowment Fund serves as a performance benchmark for pension managers, endowment fund managers and money managers.
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 April 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Value vs. Growth: Which Investing Strategy Is Better? How do returns from these two types of equities compare? We test them - and find a real difference in performance.
Financial Planning May 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Emerging Stars Compared with U.S. stock funds and broad international stock funds, funds that specialize in emerging foreign markets are a bit like Usain Bolt sprinting against mere mortals. They leave the competition far behind. But this class of investment also carries a lot of volatility.
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 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 November 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Thinking Globally: Diversified Portfolio Needs Foreign Stocks. Are They Worth it? A diversified portfolio may need foreign stocks, but are non-U.S. bonds worth the trouble?
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 October 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	How Planners Can Use Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities for a Portfolio If Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are added to an equity-based portfolio, what is their impact on returns and volatility?
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen	The Responsible Investor Investors who rely on portfolio performance to do the heavy lifting (that is, to make up for insufficient contributions during their working years) will usually fall into the trap of having too much equity exposure and therefore be exposed to too much risk.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Is Your Retirement Really Safe? The much-heralded 4% rule has its flaws.
Financial Planning June 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Update for Investing's Classic 'Efficient Frontier' Modern Portfolio Theory relies in part on the efficient frontier. But investors can now do better.
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.
Financial Planning August 1, 2011 Israelsen & Howell	Being Reasonable Managing the expectations clients have for their investment portfolios can be more challenging than actually managing the portfolios themselves.
Financial Planning June 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	The Value Premium While industry experts might be trumpeting growth as the place to be when the market rebounds, advisors should remember that longer-term, the market values value.
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 Planning June 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen	Three's Not a Crowd How passive fund investors can get the best exposure to the whole U.S. 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 August 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Does the Sequence of Market Returns Matter? The markets have good years and bad years, but the impact on a client s investments depends on the timing.
Financial Advisor June 2010 Eric Uhlfelder	Making It Last It's easier to contribute to retirement accounts than it is to manage them for withdrawals.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel	Retirement Planning the Easy Way? As you plan for retirement, a target fund might be worth considering. Make sure that the fund you select matches your risk tolerance and your personal retirement goals.
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.
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Bob Clark	Boring No More With baby boomers moving into their distribution years, bonds -- and the folks who manage them -- are becoming a lot more interesting
The Motley Fool April 9, 2010 Robert Brokamp	9 Retirement Killers Make sure you sock it away, and sock it away the right way.
BusinessWeek July 2, 2008 Mara Der Hovanesian	Will You Outlive Your Money? It's not all about how much you put away while you're working; it's also about how much you spend once you retire.
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?
The Motley Fool July 11, 2008 Robert Brokamp	You Don't Deserve Retirement Here are three reasons why you don't deserve to retire, and how you can change that.
Financial Advisor June 2004 Kevin M. Wilson	Why Value Beats Growth Portfolios using asset allocation combined with value investing produce better financial results. How should you advise clients to invest?
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Getting Back In For the most conservative clients, the most prudent way to reenter the equity markets is by degree. For investors with well-diversified portfolios and lengthy holding periods, a lump-sum approach will likely produce better outcomes.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Robert Brokamp	It's Already Worse Than the Depression Your grandparents' retirement portfolio may have looked better than yours. What can you do about it?
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	Ignoring the Bear And Other Mistakes Retirees Make Advisors can greatly increase their clients' odds of success by steering them away from some of the most common -- and damaging -- retirement mistakes. Here are some of the biggies to avoid: Counting on steady returns... Forgetting about taxes... etc.