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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 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.
Financial Planning February 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Mid-Cap's Role Mid-cap U.S. equity is almost always included when advisors and investors assemble diversified portfolios. One way to see if this popularity is justified is to do an in-depth survey of mid-cap funds, and to see how these funds affect portfolio performance.
Financial Planning January 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Swapping Out If designed well, a diversified, multi-asset portfolio can provide growth during pre-retirement accumulation years and stable income flows during post-retirement distribution years.
Financial Planning July 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Material World The natural resources mutual fund sector has a number of attractions, but one characteristic that is probably not immediately evident to many investors is that these funds do not correlate closely with broad stock indexes. This, it turns out, is a valuable feature.
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 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 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 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 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 December 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Cash Is Not Trash: How to Maximize this Asset Class Tempted to leave this asset class out of a portfolio? Don t be swayed.
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Which Performance Better? When a portfolio of mutual funds vies against a portfolio of ETFs, which one comes out on top?
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 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 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 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 May 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen	Alternative Investments With the Best Payoff Some nontraditional investments can provide valuable diversification in a portfolio. But choose wisely.
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Tales of the Tape When you look at annual returns, stocks, equity mutual funds and indexes tell surprisingly different stories.
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 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 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, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios.
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 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 February 1, 2005 Israelsen & Farr	Now You See It... Domestic small-cap equity funds, particularly those with a value tilt, are a fundamental component of any well-designed equity portfolio. The trick is finding ones that are for sale.
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 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 September 28, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	A Safe Harbor for International Investors Harbor International Fund boasts a seasoned manager, Hakan Castegren, who has been at the helm since 1987. If you are looking for a core international fund, this is probably one of the best choices out there to fill that position.
Financial Planning November 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Better Than Cash Consider the performance of two different fixed-income portfolios following four recent crashes in the U.S. equity market. The first is a true all-cash portfolio and the other is a diversified fixed-income portfolio that includes three types of bonds as well as cash.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Steve Savage	Short-Term Slumps Many great managers share common traits, including a willingness to own unpopular names, to make decisions based on long-term analysis and to maintain the discipline to ignore painful shorter-term market swings. This ability to ignore painful shorter-term swings is being tested as we speak.
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 January 31, 2008 Todd Wenning	This Will Scare You Silly As scary as the current and potential 10-year returns for the S&P sound, investors who added international stocks to their portfolio in 1998 have still come out ahead.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2008 Todd Wenning	This Will Scare You Silly Take a look at some scary annualized returns from index and bond funds, and what you can do to maximize your portfolio's returns.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel	Go Europe! An Overview of European ETFs With Asia so hyped and U.S. markets so richly priced, add a little Continental exposure to your portfolio. MSCI Austria Index Fund... MSCI UK Index Fund... Europe SmallCap Dividend Fund... etc.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2011 Amanda B. Kish	Are Emerging Markets in Danger? Time will tell whether the current blip in emerging markets' fortunes is temporary or the start of a more pervasive downward trend.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Matthew Brown	Diversify or Die During the recent market crash, diversification made the difference between those who got crushed and those who lived to fight another day.
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 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 November 1, 2006 Mark Thurston	Alive and Well Naysayers may be down on international stocks, but they remain an important part of a diversified portfolio strategy.
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha Goes Abroad Excess returns turn up in overseas large-cap value funds.
On Wall Street August 1, 2013 Matthew Lemieux	Finding Growth Opportunities in the Emerging Markets Sector Emerging market funds are battered, but there s a strong argument for staying the course.
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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.
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Financial Advisor March 2007 Eric Uhlfelder	Challenging EAFE Managers who closely track market-cap-weighted country indexes may miss opportunities.
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