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When Twice as Much Isn't Twice as Good The goal of asset allocation is to spread your investments among different classes of assets to achieve better overall performance with less volatility. How can you tell if your funds are really diversified? |
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Beta: The Alpha and Omega to Risk Analysis? To many people, beta is the be-all and end-all of risk analysis. Here, the author explores how beta is determined and then discusses its limitations and what else you should consider when looking at a company for investment. |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2008
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Want the Highest Growth? One way investors try to identify opportunities is by chasing beta, the measure of an asset's volatility against a broader index. The basic idea is to buy high-beta stocks when you expect the market to start rising. |
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December 30, 2010
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New Meets Old: Measuring Gold Market Risk Is it just too late in gold's bull market to justify the risk of entry? |
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The Right Stuff Here's how to use performance metrics to select and evaluate fund managers for your financial advisory clients. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2009
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The Market's 10 Most Volatile Stocks As long-term-focused investors, we tend not to read much into a short-term volatility measure, but there are two key points to learn about these high volatility stocks. |
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March 1, 2008
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What is Exotic Beta? Exotic beta is essentially a practical, no-nonsense concept that financial planners can use to benefit the portfolios of everyday investors, not just the portfolios of the ultra-wealthy. Read on for more. |
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Fund Managers Move in Lockstep Six of the 10 largest U.S. stock funds are almost totally in sync with the market. |
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Why You're Not Beating the Market All stocks seem to be moving in tandem. Actively managed mutual funds have been one of the primary victims of this flight from equity, with $191 billion pulled from equity funds in 2008 and 2009, according to Investment Company Institute data. |
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How Volatility Can Be Your Friend There is a way to use a stock's volatility to your advantage and potentially increase your profit potential. |
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Alive and Well Naysayers may be down on international stocks, but they remain an important part of a diversified portfolio strategy. |
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It's in the Past Can correlations between mutual funds' past performance and risks tell us anything about their future? |
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Technical Analysis: Rally Slows To A Crawl Trading turns hesitant ahead of Tuesday's election. |
Registered Rep.
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Winning the "Loser's Game" Investing is an activity in which the victor often prevails because he makes fewer mistakes than his rival does. It is no different for financial advisors and your clients. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
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Why Wall Street Can Be Beaten Take advantage of the inefficiencies created when Wall Street's customers force the market to make bad decisions. You can do that by focusing on the business behind the stock and buying when a strong business sees its stock decline. |
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Lowering the Bar How market beta can make hurdle rates look artificially low -- just because the market has become more risky doesn't necessarily mean your business has become more secure. |
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May 22, 2010
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Munger's Mental Model for Success Follow the advice of Charlie Munger and have more than one way of looking at your investments. |
Financial Advisor
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Markowitz: MPT Holds Up Modern portfolio theory never claimed diversification would help during financial crises. |
Financial Advisor
March 2006
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What Price Active Management? When stock picking is distilled from within a mutual fund, the true cost of active management bubbles to the surface. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
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It's All Greek to Me Finance's unique combination of mathematical and social sciences makes the field a linguistic battleground among academics. As ways to express financial concepts, alpha and beta are relatively simple. |
The Motley Fool
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Caution: Rough Road Ahead Stocks that smooth out the peaks and valleys. |
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These Stocks Could Save Your Portfolio Certain stocks in certain sectors traditionally ride out downturns better than others. |
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The Scoop on Beta Beta can help you grasp a stock's volatility. |
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Alpha and Beta Can a portfolio consisting entirely of beta-producing elements produce alpha? The answer is clearly yes. |
The Motley Fool
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Don't Be Afraid of Volatile Stocks Expect volatility with your stocks, and don't stress out too much about how much the shares swing up and down. As long as you have faith in the company, the company's long-term performance is what counts. |
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Written in the Polls A crystal ball won't help you predict where the stock market is going, but the 2008 election may. |
The Motley Fool
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Should You Retire With Johnson Controls? Johnson Controls' valuation, dividends, growth and low volatility can tell us if it has the traits of a good retirement stock. |
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August 31, 2011
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What Do You Think: Is This the End of Stock Picking? Insiders think these ten stocks will rally: GeoEye...US Gold... MAKO Surgical... RLI... Questcor... Iridium... Beneficial Mutual Bancorp... Hot Topic... Capitol Federal Financial... Idenix Pharmaceuticals... |
The Motley Fool
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This Is the Best Metric to Predict the Winner of the White House While millions of dollars are spent vying for your attention -- and your vote -- the Dow is a great indicator of a candidate's success. |
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The Market's 5 Most Volatile Stocks Do you have the stomach for them? |
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Should You Buy and Hold Family Dollar Stores? It's beneficial to look at the industry picture and not just Family Dollar Stores in isolation. |
The Motley Fool
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Doing This Will Just Drive You Crazy Short-term stock movements are unpredictable. |
Financial Advisor
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Building a Better Portfolio, Relatively Speaking Utilizing Modern Correlation Statistic (MCS) to build an allocation comprised of complementary investment vehicles should result in an enhanced portfolio where there always exists some winners and some losers. |
Financial Planning
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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. |
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Using the Election to Spur Clients to Prepare for the Future One of the keys to engaging clients is addressing topics that are relevant and emotional in order to bridge to longer-term planning concerns, such as the presidential election. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2006
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Invest Well, Sleep Well Your portfolio shouldn't keep you up at night. It is possible to beat the market with low-risk stocks. |
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Don't Rely on This Stock Measure Should you care about a stock's beta? It might be less of a meaningful sign of a great stock than you originally thought. |
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Alternative Medicine: Separating Beta from Alpha Retirement portfolios have been subject to significant stress and this, combined with a daunting global economic outlook, has many investors considering alternative strategies in an effort to shore up their traditional investment allocations. |
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Different Strokes This summer's volatile markets proved that allocating funds among uncorrelated assets really does work. |
The Motley Fool
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BRIC Stocks: Welcome to the Decade of Living Dangerously These international stocks might provide an interesting hedge for short-term market swings, while giving you exposure to long-term growth trends. |
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November 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Leaning Toward Lockstep Correlations between U.S. and foreign markets are increasing, but adherents insist that foreign investing can still reduce risk. |
