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Investment Advisor September 2005 Callahan & Howard	Outside the Box Style boxes place artificial constraints on portfolio managers that may lead to underperformance. Instead, the authors argue, we should set managers free to pursue their unique styles.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Callahan & Howard	Boxes Are Not Classes Advisors who use style boxes as proxies for asset classes are performing a disservice to clients. Here's why characteristic boxes are not asset classes and allocating among various characteristic boxes is useless at best.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Callahan & Howard	Redefining the Role of the Advisor Financial advisors must free managers with definable stock selection styles and strict disciplines, and devote their time to counseling, educating, and providing discipline to investors.
Investment Advisor February 2007 Callahan & Howard	Investing With Style A style-based system of portfolio management eliminates system inefficiencies, allowing advisers and managers to devote more time to what really matters to investors.
Investment Advisor June 2006 John Rekenthaler	In Defense of Style Boxes Style boxes are undeniably useful instruments for categorizing funds, for understanding a portfolio's positioning, and for communicating with clients. There is no reason to expect more from them.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Anything but Middling Munder's Mid-Cap Core Growth Fund's Tony Dong has prospered by finding growth wherever.
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Horn & Sturiale	Do Your Investments Play Nice? Advisers and consultants spend a great deal of time helping retirement plan clients construct investment portfolios. Here's a quantitative look at diversification using the Schwab Portfolio Diversification Measure.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Acting Like He Thinks If you're considering a large-cap growth fund, don't forget James P. O'Shaughnessy's Dreyfus Premier Alpha Growth Fund/B. Here's an interview with the fund manager.
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.
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Financial Planning June 1, 2005 Russell Wild	Style War Some financial advisers argue that there's more than one way to slice a portfolio.
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn	Leaning Toward Lockstep Correlations between U.S. and foreign markets are increasing, but adherents insist that foreign investing can still reduce risk.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Investment Strategery Investors, when it comes to diversification, don't forget about strategy -- especially when investing in mutual funds.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Jason Van Steenwyk	Winning the "Loser's Game" Investing is an activity in which the victor often prevails because he makes fewer mistakes than his rival does. It is no different for financial advisors and your clients.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Ben Warwick	The Puzzler: The Tilt of Beating the Market? The uncorrelated nature of portfolio tilts creates a type of safety net that puts the advisor in the driver's seat. Combined with tax-loss selling and account rebalancing, portfolio tilts are a powerful addition to an arsenal and a nearly fool-proof way to generate alpha for clients.
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.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Callahan & Howard	Judgment Day There is a new way to categorize and evaluate mutual funds -- and their managers.
Investment Advisor April 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Best of Breed The 2006 Separately Managed Accounts Awards recognize excellence in products and managers. Small Cap: Riverbridge Partners, Small Cap Growth... Tax Efficiency: KCM Investment Advisors, Large-Cap GARP Equity... etc.
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.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004	Highbrow Drifter Style drift has become shorthand for freelancing fund managers buying whatever the heck they want. Craig Callahan of ICON Funds says this is a misconception.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Israelsen & McDonough	Max Your MIPY Advancing the argument for reallocating to the prior year's middle-performing index fund.
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2004 Art Gering	A Perfect Fit Over time, REITs have proven to be the missing piece for building a well-diversified portfolio.
Financial Advisor February 2008 Bruce A. Weininger	Out Of The Style Box You have a much greater chance of improving performance by using a smaller number of managers who have shown an ability to outperform the market -- as long as you give them the freedom to invest in their best ideas, unconstrained by the style-box police.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2003 Mathew Emmert	REIT-allocate Your Portfolio A look at the diversification and income-producing benefits of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), along with some conservative strategies for putting REITs to work in your portfolio.
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Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Israelsen & McDonough	Bet Your BIPY In an ongoing quest to refine which strategies work best in the battle between growth and value investments, this article goes further to examine tactical asset allocation approaches using growth indexes.
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.
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.
Financial Advisor May 2004 Joel Bruckenstein	Software With A Conscience A new online service, IWF Advisor from IdealsWork Financial, may offer advisors a solution to the tricky problem of finding a cost-effective way to align a client's social agenda and financial needs.
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen	Don't Box Me In Is it better to diversify from the four corners of the equity style box or take the middle road? Investment professionals have different recommendations.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Craig L. Israelsen	Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Building the Perfect Portfolio Smart asset allocation is critical to successful fund investing. Staying the course is a fine idea, but because your goals and tolerance for risk are bound to change over time, the perfect portfolio will always be a work in progress.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Sydney LeBlanc	ETFs and SMAs: Side By Side Now, separately managed accounts can mean anything, from an entire basket of different separate account managers to an account also holding mutual funds, cash, and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. Of these companion investment vehicles, ETFs are proving to be one of the most popular.
Entrepreneur January 2006 Scott Bernard Nelson	World View Seeking a well-rounded portfolio? There's never been a better time to take a portion of your investments global. The simplest solution is to find a good, low-cost international index fund.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Tracey Longo	Investing For Retirement Investing for retirement is feeling pretty dicey. That has investors looking for all the advice they can find. Here's what financial advisors are saying.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Stan Luxenburg	Going to Extremes Used as the "explore" part of a "core and explore" strategy, focus can indeed help produce alpha (outperformance).
Financial Advisor August 2004 Pauline P. Lam	Commodity Investments Help Diversify Portfolios A new tool--resampled efficiency--helps create optimal allocations. Investors can gain exposure to commodities by investing in commodity index or individual commodity futures contracts. A third option is mutual funds.
AskMen.com April 14, 2002 Rashmikant Patel	Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs...
Financial Advisor March 2012 Scott A. MacKillop	MPT -- A Tool, Not An Answer Improving the data we use and how we evaluate results will lead us to the best conclusions for clients.
Financial Advisor December 2004 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Challenging Your Most Basic Assumptions The new book The Investment Think Tank makes you rethink some fundamental financial advisory principles. With its unique blend of the theoretical, practical and futuristic financial ideas, the book is sometimes controversial but never boring.
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 Planning November 1, 2007 Gene Fama	Small-World Investing Do international stocks really give you higher returns with less risk?
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.
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Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Susan B. Weiner	The Middle Ground Mid-cap stocks have yet to command as much respect from advisers and investors as their small- and large-cap peers. Now mid-cap stocks find themselves in an unusual place -- the spotlight -- after a strong showing in 2005.
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