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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 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, 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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 April 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Beyond Borders The benefits of investing in international stock are clear.
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha Goes Abroad Excess returns turn up in overseas large-cap value funds.
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.
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.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005	Mutual Fund Monitor Finding great fund managers. Here are recommendations: Bond Fund - Loomis-Sayles Bond... Large-Cap Growth Funds: Harbor Capital Appreciation... etc.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger	Investments That Don't Stand a Chance An active fund that only seeks to match its benchmark is a waste of your money. If that's all a fund can offer, you're much better off going with the index fund.
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.
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?
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Mutual Funds to Save You If your financial future is shaky, certain mutual funds can save you. Before you invest in any mutual fund, make sure you've studied it well -- either on your own or with some help.
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.
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Stephen Savage	Learning from the Past Why choosing mutual funds based on past performance has a bad track record.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Stephen Savage	Satellite of Beta When constructing a core-satellite portfolio, where do your indexes really belong? Here's an approach that is closer to the inverse of the traditional core-and-satellite approach.
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Suzanne Woolley	A 401(k) Funds Popularity Contest A look at which actively managed mutual funds shepherd the most retirement assets, how well they do it, and where they are putting your money.
Financial Planning December 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen	Keeping it in Perspective How often and by how much does growth outperform value?
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 Stan Luxenberg	Beating The Bear Will active funds eventually wither away? Not likely. Actively run funds are alive and well, and many are beating the current bear market.
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?
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 John Ameriks	The Myth of the Stockpicker's Market When investors try to outrun both the bulls and the bears, look to sports cliches for help: The best offense is a good defense.
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 Advisor August 2009 Marla Brill	Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Craig L. Israelsen	Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2011 Amanda B. Kish	More Proof of a Losing Investment Strategy Finding outperformance among actively managed funds.
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.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen	Getting Back In For the most conservative clients, the most prudent way to reenter the equity markets is by degree. For investors with well-diversified portfolios and lengthy holding periods, a lump-sum approach will likely produce better outcomes.
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?
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Amanda B. Kish	10 Core Stocks: A Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Update The fund's success speaks to the importance of having a diversified portfolio that covers all the stops in the market capitalization spectrum.
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 John F. Wasik	The Case For Fixed Income Active Management Does it still make sense to have a high-profile, actively managed bond fund in your clients' portfolios?
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.
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 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.
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 January 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Really Real Returns A new metric, Investor Return, measures how much of a mutual fund's performance gets into investors' pockets.
Financial Planning January 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn	True Value How did value funds post superior numbers for the trailing 10 years? The short answer is that they held few technology stocks and emerged from the burstng tech bubble with a lead they held through the decade, says Michael Breen, associate director of mutual fund analysis for Morningstar.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2011 Amanda B. Kish	Why You Should Ignore Poor Performance Even the best fund managers can hit the occasional rough patch.
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 Randy Lert	Stick to Your Guns! Investment managers have stayed bullish on investment underdogs despite a market that has been going the other way. Their favorite category by far is large-cap growth stocks, yet according to several surveys, those stocks only rose 1.7%.
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, 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.
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.
Financial Planning July 1, 2011 Allan S. Roth	The Benchmarking Game When choosing a benchmark the most appropriate choice usually isn't obvious for two reasons: It's rare that portfolios match one index substantially and they also change over time.