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Financial Planning April 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Beyond Borders The benefits of investing in international stock are clear.
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 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?
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.
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 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 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 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 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 September 1, 2010 Margie Carpenter	Where the Growth Is Advisors who follows a typical, traditional asset allocation model are likely to be surprisingly underweight in the highest-growth economies of the world.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 Advisor April 2008 C. & J. Carty	Capturing Alpha With ETFs An actively managed portfolio of exchange-traded funds can generate risk-adjusted excess returns above those of its individual funds -- a positive alpha.
Financial Advisor December 2009 Marla Brill	Chasing Returns Emerging market ETFs are big winners this year, but concerns about unsustainable values are mounting.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Donald Jay Korn	Submerging Markets Does it make sense to put money into emerging-markets stocks or funds now, at the current depressed prices?
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Israelsen & McDonough	Max Your MIPY Advancing the argument for reallocating to the prior year's middle-performing index fund.
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 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?
The Motley Fool December 13, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Best ETF for 2012: Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets Why this diversified index fund is a wise choice.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha Goes Abroad Excess returns turn up in overseas large-cap value funds.
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 Jim McAllister	Emerging and Developed Markets -- Decoupling or a Reversion to the Mean? Vast differences in economic growth rates are at work in the performance disparity between developed and emerging markets.
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.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	Vanguard's Best Index Funds Which index funds should you have in your portfolio? Vanguard 500 Index Fund... Vanguard Small-Cap Index... Vanguard Total International Stock Index... etc.
Financial Advisor March 2011	Thinking Small Small-cap emerging market stocks may outpace their developed market counterparts by a healthy margin.
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 February 23, 2010 Amanda B. Kish	Are Advisors Making Smart ETF Choices? It looks like many of them are jumping on the bandwagon.
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?
On Wall Street May 1, 2012 Tom Roseen	The Emerging Markets Push So with the risk aversion over the last few years, why do we continue to see investors allocating large amounts of cash to emerging market stock 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.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2011 Tim Hanson	Why You Should Be Worried About Emerging Markets If the best time to be fearful is when others are greedy, then now is the time to run away from the developing world.
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 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 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.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 MIchael Johnston	Using ETFs to Round Out Emerging Markets Exposure These ETFs can help you fine tune your international exposure and construct a more balanced portfolio.
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 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.