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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
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
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
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
Financial Planning
July 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen
Quasi-Commodities? Here's how energy, precious metals and real estate compare with the entire commodities index as a component of an investment portfolio. 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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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 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
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. 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
September 1, 2006
Scott A. Leonard
The Smaller, the Better Rumors that the small-cap effect is dead are most definitely premature. By focusing on the smallest of the small caps, financial advisors can see that the small-cap effect appears to be alive and well. You just need to know where to look for it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
January 1, 2006
Marshall Eckblad
REITs' Diversification Benefits Portfolios that included Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) holdings have outperformed those without such holdings in recent years. 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 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
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
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? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2010
Michael Johnston
3 Low-Volatility ETF Options Smooth out your volatility and lower your blood pressure with these three ETFs. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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? 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2010
Peng Chen
The Inflation Scenario Both traditional stocks and bonds are quite likely to suffer in high inflationary environments, while inflation-indexed bond returns tend to be quite stable across different inflation environments. 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2008
Allen Kenney
On the Road to Retirement Target date funds are taking a closer look at where retirees will end up, and changes are coming that could pay dividends for REITs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2005
David Reilly
Is Risk Really A Four Letter Word? Once esoteric investing strategies, such as managed currency and commodity futures, real estate, short selling, arbitrage and event-driven strategies, allow portfolio risk management to be taken to the next level. Advisers, take note. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Jeremy Myers
Your Portfolio Needs More Real Estate Investors can lower volatility and boost returns by increasing their real estate exposure. 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
August 2010
James Picerno
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
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