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Redefining the Role of the Advisor Financial advisors must free managers with definable stock selection styles and strict disciplines, and devote their time to counseling, educating, and providing discipline to investors.   |
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January 2006
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Risky Business The primary goal of financial advisors is to make life less risky for clients. But using style boxes to determine risk in a portfolio is a fool's errand. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
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Boxes Are Not Classes Advisors who use style boxes as proxies for asset classes are performing a disservice to clients. Here's why characteristic boxes are not asset classes and allocating among various characteristic boxes is useless at best. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004 |
Highbrow Drifter Style drift has become shorthand for freelancing fund managers buying whatever the heck they want. Craig Callahan of ICON Funds says this is a misconception. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Acting Like He Thinks If you're considering a large-cap growth fund, don't forget James P. O'Shaughnessy's Dreyfus Premier Alpha Growth Fund/B. Here's an interview with the fund manager. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
Callahan & Howard |
Investing With Style A style-based system of portfolio management eliminates system inefficiencies, allowing advisers and managers to devote more time to what really matters to investors. |
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? |
Financial Advisor
October 2004
Alan Lavine |
Pondering The Fate Of Mid-Cap Stock Funds Is the market rotating away from this once-hot sector? |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2005
Russell Wild |
Style War Some financial advisers argue that there's more than one way to slice a portfolio. |
Investment Advisor
April 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Anything but Middling Munder's Mid-Cap Core Growth Fund's Tony Dong has prospered by finding growth wherever. |
Investment Advisor
June 2006
John Rekenthaler |
In Defense of Style Boxes Style boxes are undeniably useful instruments for categorizing funds, for understanding a portfolio's positioning, and for communicating with clients. There is no reason to expect more from them. |
Investment Advisor
February 2008
Callahan & Howard |
Illusionist Are your firm's money managers really just closet indexers? |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2007
Callahan & Howard |
Judgment Day There is a new way to categorize and evaluate mutual funds -- and their managers. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2006
Jim Fink |
The Allure and Illusion of Mechanical Investing: Part 3 The series concludes with a look at mechanical investing and the average investor: Whatever investment strategy you pursue, remember the concept of ever-changing cycles. Just when a strategy appears to be a sure thing, everybody jumps on board, and it stops working. |
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. |
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. |
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 Advisor
April 2006
Blank & Psoras |
When Sin Is Superior Eliminating vice stocks from portfolios may mean lower returns. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
Susan B. Weiner |
The Middle Ground Mid-cap stocks have yet to command as much respect from advisers and investors as their small- and large-cap peers. Now mid-cap stocks find themselves in an unusual place -- the spotlight -- after a strong showing in 2005. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Types of Investors: Which Are You? Knowing who you are can help you understand yourself and how you approach making money. Learn about some classifications of investors and which brokerage is right for you. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
The Problem of Success If you overweighted clients' small-cap stock funds exposure a few years back, you're looking like a genius. But what now? Anyone seeking a small-cap choice faces a hard problem: Nearly all the top candidates have been closed. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2004
Whitney Tilson |
Buffettesque Superinvestors The author talks about 12 up-and-coming, mostly unknown investment managers whom he believes will substantially outperform the market over time. They manage money in very different ways, but all are from the intellectual village of Graham-and-Doddsville. |
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. |
AskMen.com
April 14, 2002
Rashmikant Patel |
Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs... |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Ben Warwick |
The Puzzler: Trading by the Calendar The January Effect, which involves buying small-cap stocks at year end and selling them a month later, is the Elvis of investing. Has it left the building? |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2005
Bill Barker |
$40 Billion Small Caps How your "small-cap" fund might own some of the biggest companies in the market. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Scott A. MacKillop |
MPT -- A Tool, Not An Answer Improving the data we use and how we evaluate results will lead us to the best conclusions for clients. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2004
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How Many Stocks Should You Own? Diversification into stocks you don't fully understand could increase risk within your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2004
Mathew Emmert |
Beat the Market With Less Risk You can achieve maximum returns without taking on the maximum risk. Learn how to make money in the stock market and sleep well at night, too. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006
Jim Fink |
Want 50% Annual Returns? An explanation of the allure and illusion of mechanical investing, which is stock-picking strategies based on quantitative computer screens. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
Len Reinhart |
The Equity Puzzle Stocks are a critical component of lifetime investment plans, but clients need more than cookie-cutter allocations and market-mirror index funds. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
David A. Geracioti |
The 20-Year Itch An interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy on his book, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow who tells financial advisors if they think they can protect clients by putting them in "safe" large-cap stocks or in, say, an S&P 500 index fund, they'll be disappointed. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2005
Josie Raney |
Do Targeted Funds Hit Your Mark? Look before you take the lifecycle leap. If you're a beginning investor, these funds can offer inexpensive, no-fuss, diversification -- provided you choose the one that best suits your investing timeline and tolerance for risk. |
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Performance Analysis And Fund Ratings What goes into the fund investment recommendations that we typically hear. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2004
Rex Moore |
Battling the Bears It's been one year since a "bear scare." What have we learned? Last year, a stock rally drove some bears out of hibernation, literally "distressing" at least one of them. But equities continued their steady pace upward, and the market timers once again came up short. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Bruce A. Weininger |
Out Of The Style Box You have a much greater chance of improving performance by using a smaller number of managers who have shown an ability to outperform the market -- as long as you give them the freedom to invest in their best ideas, unconstrained by the style-box police. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2004
Shannon Zimmerman |
Building the Perfect Portfolio Smart asset allocation is critical to successful fund investing. Staying the course is a fine idea, but because your goals and tolerance for risk are bound to change over time, the perfect portfolio will always be a work in progress. |
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. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Hidden Measures How did U.S. stocks perform versus U.S. equity mutual funds last year? The market-cap bias in measuring stock returns tends to obscure the true return picture. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
Stan Luxenburg |
Going to Extremes Used as the "explore" part of a "core and explore" strategy, focus can indeed help produce alpha (outperformance). |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004
Lauren Young |
Mutual Funds: Keeping Fit In A Flat Market It's hard to draw a bead on the stock market these days. With the major equity indexes flat for the year, it feels like neither the bulls nor the bears are in charge. So where does that leave an investor in search of a few good places to stash some cash? |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Joel Bruckenstein |
Scrutinizing Investing Style Zephyr Associates' StyleAdvisor has been around since the early 1990s, and it's evolved with the times to be more sophisticated and more comprehensive, yet also easier to use. |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2004
Mathew Emmert |
Beat the Market With Less Risk You can achieve maximum returns without taking on the maximum risk. Here's how to make money in the stock market without sacrificing your right to sleep at night. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2005
Rex Moore |
Juicing the Market's Returns You want to know exactly what actions you should take to finally get your investing house in order. The "Index Plus a Few" is a low-risk strategy with market-beating potential. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Penny Stocks, Anyone? Penny stocks are often tied to small, unproven companies with no track record of solid financial performance. Worse, these stocks are among the easiest to manipulate and often are manipulated by scam artists. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2004 |
Kinds of Funds Learn the difference between income funds and balanced funds. |
The Motley Fool
November 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
10 Big Investing Mistakes Some mistakes are not always mistakes. |
