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Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Israelsen & Walker	Evening the Odds A significant flaw in many active-versus-passive studies occurs when tallying the number of funds that under- or out-perform an index. Three steps could help level the playing field in the active-versus-passive debate.
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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 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010.
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.
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.
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.
Financial Planning May 1, 2008 Craig L. Israelsen	Mega Protection The performance of U.S. stocks in 2007 resembled, to a surprising degree, the performance of stocks in 2000 -- a year widely perceived as a bear market. One big difference, however, was the performance of mega-cap stocks.
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.
Financial Planning March 1, 2012 Brian J. Lazorishak	Mid-Cap, Big Return Over a 10-, 20- and 30-year period ending last year, mid-caps (generally defined as issues with market capitalizations of $1 billion to $15 billion) have outperformed both large-caps and small-caps on an absolute basis.
Financial Advisor August 2009 Marla Brill	Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices.
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.
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Tales of the Tape When you look at annual returns, stocks, equity mutual funds and indexes tell surprisingly different stories.
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha in the Box The search for Shangri-La pales in comparison to the quest for funds that consistently deliver high alpha. The fundamental question for financial advisors: Does alpha differ across the nine Morningstar style boxes?
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Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Israelsen & McDonough	Max Your MIPY Advancing the argument for reallocating to the prior year's middle-performing index fund.
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Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien	White Paper Performance: Keep Expectations in Check -- A study predicts that annual compound returns from various securities will be lower, over the coming 20 years, than they were in the previous three decades.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha Goes Abroad Excess returns turn up in overseas large-cap value funds.
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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen	Size Matters U.S. equity mutual funds do not mirror the overall domestic stock market. That isn't necessarily bad, it's just the way it is.
Financial Advisor October 2007 Marla Brill	Do Your Clients' Target Funds Measure Up? How do market watchers come up with apples-to-apples comparisons of target-date funds? The absence of a standardized benchmark has left financial advisors to wade through the burgeoning number of fund choices with only vague and often conflicting guidelines for evaluation.
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The Motley Fool June 28, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	Are Your Funds Really Performing? It's not enough to simply pick good mutual funds and hope that your money will grow. You need constant evaluation and comparison to keep your investment program on track.
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.
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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.
Financial Planning November 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Proposition Three The number of target-date funds continues to grow, but there remains only one set of benchmarks. Here are three proposed indexes to fill the void.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Marla Brill	The New Indexing Maze The mushrooming ETF market has spawned a new breed of indexes that represent a radical departure from traditional benchmarks in both their construction and purpose.
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn	Weight Watchers New equity indexes, weighed by fundamental factors, are challenging the conventions of passive investing.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Market-Beating Returns Made Simple This twist on the old index fund does well. Equal-weight funds have done quite well compared to traditional index funds over periods of several years.
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Bob Hirschfeld	Ninth-Inning Save Although indexes were lackluster, large caps rallied toward the end of the year.
On Wall Street April 1, 2012 Jeff Tjornehoj	Benchmarking the Benchmarks The news hasn't been good lately for actively managed funds and their investors. In 2011, only one-third of large-cap fund managers beat the S&P 500 index.
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