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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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
A Better Balanced 'Core' Balanced funds are based on outdated models and need to be better diversified.  |
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.  |
Financial Planning April 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen |
Beyond Borders The benefits of investing in international stock are clear.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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 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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
A Tough, but Smart Sell Plenty of clients detest bond mutual funds, but a bond fund can be less volatile than a small portfolio of individual bonds. The typical fund is broadly diversified and includes hundreds of names.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool March 7, 2005 |
Bonds and Interest Rates Bond prices move in strange ways -- learn why.  |
Registered Rep. April 5, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
A Bond Bear Market? Not to Worry, Follow Vanguard's Bogle's System Under most scenarios, bonds will deliver modestly positive returns in coming years.  |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Should you invest in bond funds or individual bonds?  |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Save Yourself From the Bond Bear The possibility of losses in bonds has some people running scared, but you should stay smart.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2005 |
The Bond Scoop Ever wondered how bonds work? Here's the answer.  |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Hard Times for Junk Bonds High-yield bonds' time in the sun may be over. Although junk bonds may produce tempting returns, they should only be introduced strategically, and they should almost never account for a large portion of your investment.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Double Plays When clients want a total return fund, it may be difficult for advisors to sort out the options. Determining what role a total return fund can play in a client's portfolio requires a deeper understanding of this confusing category.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
This Rally Is So Over While bonds still serve a vital role in every investor's portfolio, just make sure you're not banking your entire future on them.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Death of Bonds? You shouldn't give up on bonds entirely, but neither should you rely on them to support you without help from other investments.  |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Stocks and Bonds: Mind the Gap The gap between the earnings yield on the S&P 500 and 10-year bonds is now about as wide as it's been in a half-century.  |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
The Scoop on Savings Bonds: Part 2 A closer look at why bonds aren't as attractive as they used to be.  |
Entrepreneur June 2006 Scott Bernard Nelson |
The Long of It The 30-year bond has made a comeback, but individual investors might be better off picking bonds their own size.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Can Bill Gross Keep His Magic Touch? Investors piling into his flagship bond fund are missing cheaper opportunities.  |
Financial Advisor June 2010 Michelle Knight |
Rising Rates Not Fatal Bond investments shouldn't automatically be sold off when interest rates rise. Here's why.  |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2010 Robert Brokamp |
Will Rising Rates Sink Your Portfolio? And should you be worried? How will this affect the portfolios of people who invest in rate-sensitive securities -- namely, bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds?  |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 |
Long Bonds and Zero Coupons Think of bonds as loans -- and perhaps consider investing in some.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Broken Bonds Even if you've just experienced a painful breakup with the stock market, don't go falling in love with bonds just because you're on the rebound. The plain truth is that looking for love in today's bond market could lead to another broken heart.  |
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?  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
When Safe Investments Aren't Particularly risk-averse investors have always assumed they had one safe haven: bonds. But those who consider bonds completely safe for their money can be unpleasantly surprised.  |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
Don't Buy This Junk The high-yield "junk" bond sector of the market has been on fire this year, but you should leave these bonds in the bin.  |
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 July 1, 2007 Matthew Posner |
The Bond Buyer "Kicker" or "cushion" bonds provide benefits of which the buy-and-hold investor may not be aware.  |
On Wall Street January 1, 2013 Jeff Tjornehoj |
Classifying Funds That Turn to Lower-Rated Debt to Boost Return One analyst says it s time to separate bond fund classification strategies into distinct groups.  |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
Investing In Bonds Having some bonds in your portfolio is not only a good way to make money, it's also a great way to diversify. Here's what you need to know before you invest in the bond market.  |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Robert F. Keane |
Dealing With the Downturn: In Her Own Words Debra Brede does all the investment selection for her clients' portfolios. Here's how she describes the adjustments she's made over the last few months.  |