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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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Craig L. Israelsen
Spice It Up Can adding commodities to a diversified investment portfolio boost performance without adding extra risk? Read on. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2008
Craig L. Israelsen
A Perfect Portfolio Investment portfolios should include a wide variety of diverse assets. Each one adds an important dimension to the portfolio because it behaves differently. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen
Commodity Confidence Find a commodity fund that adds value to an overall portfolio by virtue of its raw performance as well as by virtue of its low correlation with the other portfolio ingredients. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger
Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn
Hot Commodities Real assets are on a tear. Better yet, they offer great diversification and a hedge against inflation. The current trend probably has room to run, and there are other very real reasons to allocate a regular portion of clients' portfolios to commodities. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2010
Dan Caplinger
Investments You Can't Retire Without Asset allocation isn't just about stocks, bonds, and cash. There are other avenues to wealth in the financial markets. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Zoe Van Schyndel
Commodities Hit the Exchange (Again) The commodities boom launches another investment. The S&P GSCI Enhanced Commodity Total Return Strategy Index exchange-traded note is a new vehicle from Goldman Sachs that tracks the S&P GSCI Index. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
June 1, 2011
Savita Iyer-Ahrestani
Stockpiling Commodities The traditional stock/bond breakdown is no longer enough; for true diversification, clients need to add commodities to their portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Pauline P. Lam
What You Should Know About Commodity Indexes Direct commodity investment has a place in every investment portfolio. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen
Disappearing Act In light of the recent market implosion, clients are anxious to make up for lost time (and returns). When their needs in retirement are unrealistic, their portfolios cannot support them. However, the composition of their portfolios can mitigate the blow. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
William Harding
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2013
Jeff Tjornehoj
Are Alts Making the Grade? The most recent crop of alt fund contenders are performing like a classroom full of underachievers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
April 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen
Still Seeking Stability The challenge today for planners is prudently choosing and utilizing a sufficiently wide variety of asset classes so as to create a truly diversified and stable portfolio -- whether it's for the accumulation phase or the distribution phase of life. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2012
Jeff Tjornehoj
Great Expectations for Alternative ETFs The explosive growth of alternative exchange-traded funds has raised the question of whether they ve met the expectations of their investors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Craig L. Israelsen
A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2009
A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2010
Amanda B. Kish
Jumping on the Commodity Bandwagon If you own a target-date fund, make sure you know whether your fund is moving into commodities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Craig L. Israelsen
A Better Mousetrap Target date funds are here to stay. As a result of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, target date funds will likely become the auto-enrollment default option in tax-deferred retirement plans. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2010
John Rosevear
You Need This Offbeat Investment Some funds -- which Morningstar calls "moderate allocation" funds -- take nonstandard approaches to investing: Some take short positions, some buy and sell options, some invest in commodities, some combine all of the above and more. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
Scott A. Leonard
The Dogs of the Dogs Should you be buying the worst of the worst for your clients? To get the most out of academic research, and to take full advantage of the added returns offered by value stocks, the easy conclusion is that when it comes to value, more is better. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger
The New Hot Commodity With the advent of exchange-traded funds, you can find custom-made investments that allow you to participate in nearly any market you can imagine. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2009
David J. Drucker
Does Asset Allocation Need A Facelift? Has the 2008 stock market changed the rules of asset allocation and how we manage asset volatility? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen
The Math of Recovery Resilience after a loss may be the most important asset a retirement portfolio can offer. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg
From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Marla Brill
Commodities Go Mainstream Until recently the high costs and complexity associated with commodity investing kept many investors away. But now, new products make it easier to get a pure play on commodity prices. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Laura Cohn
Striking Gold In Commodities Some pension funds have made outsize returns, but how safe is the market? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn
Going for the Gold Planners who want to sprinkle a bit of gold dust onto their clients' portfolios have many funds from which to choose. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2007
Robert Brokamp
A Brief History of a Stupid Investor If you want to increase your wealth, if you want to protect your wealth, and if you want to parlay that wealth into a long retirement, an intelligently created and maintained asset allocation is the way to go. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen
Nest Egg Survival After spending your working years accumulating money, you face a rude awakening in retirement when that growth is replaced by withdrawal. This drawdown phase might be described as the relentless cracking of the retirement nest egg. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
December 1, 2008
William Harding
Endowments Offer Investment Lessons for Retirees The number of Americans who turn 65 each week could fill a sports stadium -- and they all need income. Portfolios for people saving for retirement should be structured differently from those already there. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Joseph Lisanti
Girding for Inflation Whether you think inflation is here now or is headed our way, planners should prepare for it. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2011
Dan Caplinger
Are ETFs Predicting a Commodities Crash? ETF data give you a window on the commodities world. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
March 2010
What the Research Found Numerous studies have explored the investment benefits of adding precious metals to portfolios of U.S. equities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 22, 2009
Stan Luxenberg
Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2006
Len Reinhart
Retirement Hedges To meet your clients' needs, your process will have to include planning for each stage of their retirement years. If used correctly, alternative investments can reduce risk in lifetime investment plans. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Virginia Munger Kahn
Natural Selection Are futures or natural resource stocks the best way to get commodity exposure? mark for My Articles similar articles