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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.
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Financial Advisor August 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen	Winners by Default Target-date and balanced funds have become the main default options in corporate retirement plans. But which one is better?
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The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Don't Let Your Investments Blindside You Do it yourself and know what you're getting. There are some things you're better off doing yourself and managing your retirement savings is one of them
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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.
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