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Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen
Beyond Borders The benefits of investing in international stock are clear. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen
Mid-Cap's Role Mid-cap U.S. equity is almost always included when advisors and investors assemble diversified portfolios. One way to see if this popularity is justified is to do an in-depth survey of mid-cap funds, and to see how these funds affect portfolio performance. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
January 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen
Swapping Out If designed well, a diversified, multi-asset portfolio can provide growth during pre-retirement accumulation years and stable income flows during post-retirement distribution years. 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 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
April 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen
Value vs. Growth: Which Investing Strategy Is Better? How do returns from these two types of equities compare? We test them - and find a real difference in performance. 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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
October 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen
Lost-and Found A well-diversified portfolio would have protected investors during the "Lost Decade" between 2000 and 2009. 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
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. 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
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen
Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Which Performance Better? When a portfolio of mutual funds vies against a portfolio of ETFs, which one comes out on top? 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
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
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
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 Advisor
August 2009
Marla Brill
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. 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
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
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Palash R. Ghosh
Small-Cap Value Still Chugging Along While small-cap stocks have generally underperformed large-caps in recent years, small-cap value has kept pace with its larger-cap value peers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
April 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen
Send in the Clones? Target-date funds are proliferating, and they're astonishingly similar. Sadly, they're not astonishingly excellent. 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
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
September 2009
Raymond Fazzi
A Small Risk Conventional wisdom says small caps are riskier than their large-cap counterparts, but they remain a basic building block in retirement portfolios. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Kunal Kapoor
'Lost Decade' May Yet Happen if Investors Aren't Careful Investors who mistakenly viewed the past 10 years as a lost cause made an elementary mistake and they're about to do it again. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
June 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen
Update for Investing's Classic 'Efficient Frontier' Modern Portfolio Theory relies in part on the efficient frontier. But investors can now do better. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn
Seven-Year Hitch? Small-cap stocks have been big winners ever since the last century, but keeping the good times rolling could be a major challenge for financial planners. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
January 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen
Think Inside the Box The many investments within a style box are not all alike. Market-cap variance can lead to significant performance differences within style boxes -- particularly among large-cap funds. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen
The Value Premium While industry experts might be trumpeting growth as the place to be when the market rebounds, advisors should remember that longer-term, the market values value. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
August 2005
Angelina Dance
S&P Mutual Fund Sector Focus: Small-Cap Growth Still Packing a Punch Growth investing, particularly in the small-cap sector, has traditionally been considered a high-risk approach, yet in the past several years has proven to be rewarding. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2007
Steve Savage
Short-Term Slumps Many great managers share common traits, including a willingness to own unpopular names, to make decisions based on long-term analysis and to maintain the discipline to ignore painful shorter-term market swings. This ability to ignore painful shorter-term swings is being tested as we speak. 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
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
July 1, 2006
Israelsen & Walker
Right on Target? Life-cycle funds are relatively new. Here are the pros and cons of investing in target-date funds. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2007
Amanda B. Kish
2 Stellar Small-Cap Funds These small-cap funds are off the radar, but on the right track. LKCM Small-Cap Equity Fund... TCW Opportunity Fund... mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen
Cash Is Not Trash: How to Maximize this Asset Class Tempted to leave this asset class out of a portfolio? Don t be swayed. 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 Advisor
March 2005
Craig L. Israelsen
Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
Israelsen & Howell
Being Reasonable Managing the expectations clients have for their investment portfolios can be more challenging than actually managing the portfolios themselves. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
July 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen
Alpha and Beta Can a portfolio consisting entirely of beta-producing elements produce alpha? The answer is clearly yes. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 16, 2007
Amanda B. Kish
Large Caps Making a Comeback? So how can smart investors best capitalize on any coming large-cap rebound? Well, don't abandon small caps completely. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2007
Bruce W. Fraser
Thinking Small Small-cap funds should be in any portfolio, so don't let recent underperformance scare away clients. mark for My Articles similar articles