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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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
Registered Rep.
August 16, 2010
Brad Zigler
Commodity Funds or Commodity Exchange-traded Products? The tumult in the equities markets has forced a lot of investors and advisors to consider diversifying their portfolios with alternative asset classes. 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 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
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2005
Tom Taulli
Playing Commodities With ETFs Commodities are booming. But it's sometimes hard for individual investors to participate. ETFs can make things easier. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Aaron Pressman
A High-Risk Diet For Investors Why a portfolio full of commodities may not be the best hedge against inflation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2011
Brad Zigler
Managed Futures Mainstreamed Changes in the regulatory scheme have since allowed the creation of lower-cost commodity-based mutual funds and exchange-traded products which can be marketed by Series 7 folk and RIA associates. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
November 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn
Hard Choices Exchange-traded funds and notes provide more options for financial planners who want exposure to commodities. 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 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
Financial Advisor
April 2006
Matt Hougan
Rolling With Commodities Commodities can play an important role in a portfolio, and the much-anticipated Deutsche Bank commodities ETF can be a good vehicle to add them. But with oil deeply in contango, and expenses still on the high side, a shade of extra care is needed. 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
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Kristen Capuano
The Big Idea: Fighting Contango For investors and advisors eager to add to or adjust their commodity allocations, the contango-fighting approach of a next-generation commodity product may be worth a closer look. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Matt Hougan
Dancing The Contango The commodities market has investors singing the blues, but a new note leads some to follow the beat of a different drummer. Whatever happens with commodities in 2007, we know one thing for sure: Advisors will be watching. 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, 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
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
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2011
Dan Caplinger
Are Commodities Still Doing Their Job? As commodities get more popular, their usefulness for diversification may decline. 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 Advisor
October 2009
Marla Brill
Wading Back In Last year's credit crunch and commodities crash sent assets in exchange-traded notes plummeting. Now, investors are taking a second look. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
March 1, 2005
Mutual Fund Monitor Commodities futures have unique diversification properties and, on average, perform well whenever stocks and bonds have done poorly. 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
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
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
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2006
Selena Maranjian
Risky Investing Just Got Easier With the first commodity-based exchange-traded fund having just been launched, you can invest in commodities easily, but do you really want to? 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
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
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2004
Christopher M. Wright
Q&A with Roger Gibson Roger Gibson is a nationally recognized expert in asset allocation and portfolio design. In a recent interview he discusses among other things, diversification and where REITs fit into his clients' portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Brad Zigler
How To Play The Agriculture Game Commodities' popularity with retail investors ebbs and flows with the inflation cycle. Should you invest in the stocks of companies involved in commodity production, ETFs, or futures? 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
December 1, 2008
Suzanne McGee
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Stan Laxenberg
Hot Stuff Commodity fund manager Jim Rogers has demonstrated a knack for finding the hottest markets. Here is his advice for the current market situation and some fund recommendations. 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
The Motley Fool
September 2, 2010
Dan Caplinger
Is This the Next Long Term Capital Management? A new commodity ETF, the U.S. Commodity Index Fund, sports an Ivy League pedigree. 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