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Financial Advisor August 2010 James Picerno |
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
Financial Advisor December 2011 James Picerno |
Model-Free Investing Is equal weighting's agnostic view of asset-pricing theory an advantage? |
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 December 1, 2005 John Nersesian |
Rebalancing Act One of a planner's most difficult tasks in getting clients to implement a financial plan is convincing them to rebalance their asset allocations. Before you can persuade clients to rebalance, you have to show them the benefits. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Marla Brill |
New Indexes Nudge Out Old Favorites Advisors who have moved into alternative indexes are finding unique ways to use them. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Best Reason to Sell the Rally Now After just a few months, could it already be time to rebalance your portfolio again? |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Ryan Popple |
When Should I Rebalance? Rebalancing a portfolio works best when it's linked to performance. Asset allocation can not only manage risk, it can also increase portfolio returns. |
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. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2010 Kevin Brosious |
Rebalance and Win With one quick move, your portfolio could have already recovered from the Great Recession. |
Registered Rep. February 15, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Fundamental Indexes Have Had a Good Run. Converted Yet? Proponents claimed that fundamental ETFs and mutual funds would outdo the S&P 500 and other traditional benchmarks. Critics scoffed. But now many of the funds have significant track records, and the results are promising. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 James Picerno |
Strength In Numbers Indexing is moving past the standard beta carve-ups, such as small- vs. large-cap equities and value vs. growth stocks. A new era of factor-based indexing is dawning, and it promises to be far more nuanced and complicated. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Gobind Daryanani |
Balancing Acts How do you rebalance assets in these turbulent times? A new approach, called opportunistic rebalancing, squeezes more alpha out of rebalancing. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
The Rebalancing Premium The principle behind a traditional 60/40 investment portfolio is balancing two asset classes - large-cap U.S. stocks and U.S. bonds. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Weight Watchers New equity indexes, weighed by fundamental factors, are challenging the conventions of passive investing. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Mark Willoughby |
Volatility Bites For those who had begun to underestimate the impact volatility can have on managing investment portfolios, the events of 2007 and early 2008 have been a sobering reminder. |
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 Advisor September 2011 Tom Lydon |
It's All In The Weighting ETF indexing has evolved, but the traditional, somewhat boring approach may still yield the best results. |
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. |
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 Advisor April 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
A Look At New Horizons At a time when the margin for error is growing thinner and thinner in investment management circles, some are asking whether advisors and their clients are adequately served by cap-weighted benchmarks. |
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. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Rick Adkins |
What I Learned About Portfolio Rebalancing Why does conditional rebalancing work so well? Common sense: It allows the markets, not a calendar, to dictate when it is time to rebalance one's portfolio. |
Registered Rep. June 7, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Concentrated ETFs PowerShares QQQ has been racing ahead. During the past five years ending March, the ETF has returned 7 percent annually, outdoing the average large growth mutual fund by 4 percentage points |
Financial Advisor December 2009 James Picerno |
The First Step There are no easy answers for asset allocation, but at least there's a practical starting point. |
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. |
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 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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Roger Gibson Roger Gibson is a nationally recognized expert in asset allocation and portfolio design. In a recent interview he discusses among other things, diversification and where REITs fit into his clients' portfolios. |
Registered Rep. January 26, 2010 Brad Zigler |
The Price Is NOT (Always) Right As every financial advisor -- indeed every investor -- knows, there is a difference between price and value. |
Financial Advisor February 2009 James Picerno |
We're All Value Investors Now The financial mindset is moving closer to what Ben Graham discovered long ago: Fundamental value matters. |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Why Bogle Doesn't Bother to Rebalance Before you rebalance your portfolio, you should understand exactly why you're rebalancing -- and what impact it will have on your overall portfolio. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Beyond Benchmarks Tracking alternative indexes can add a flavor of active management to the ETF menu. |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Better Way to Beat the Market? The jury's still out on alternative indexes. Different market conditions will make index funds perform in various ways. |
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. |
Investment Advisor April 2010 Robert J. Lindner |
Expert's Corner: Putting It in Neutral Advisors can improve a client's portfolio by using a market neutral strategy. |
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. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Fundamental Indexing During the 1990s, S&P 500 index funds were all the rage -- and, for most core investments, the bogey to beat. But lately the index has been offering stingy returns. |
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 March 1, 2006 Bob Veres |
Beyond the Pyramid Think you know the state of the art in portfolio management? New research may offer some surprises -- and suggest new approaches. |
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 April 1, 2008 Joel Bruckenstein |
Revisiting Rebalancing Almost all financial planners agree that periodically rebalancing clients' portfolios should be standard operating procedure. But as yet, there is little if any consensus as to how rebalancing should be performed. |
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 May 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen |
Built to Last Every retiree wants to build a resilient retirement portfolio. One of the most important parts of such a portfolio is durability.A durable portfolio is one which outlasts the retiree. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 O'Toole & Steiny |
The Perfect Process A disciplined approach to managing client assets is at the heart of financial planning. How does yours stack up? |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
57 Flavors of Funds New versions of ETFs mean more choices for investors. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2009 John Rosevear |
Is Your Portfolio Stuck in 2006? In general, it is a good idea to rebalance your portfolio every couple of years to ensure that it's properly balancing risk and reward consistent with your long-term goals, but rebalancing may not be the right thing to do right now. |
Financial Advisor May 2009 James Picerno |
A Necessary Evil What is crucial to the success of diversification is the price you pay for initiating exposure to different asset classes. At certain times, you're paid to assume risk; at other times you're not paid to assume risk. |