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Markowitz: MPT Holds Up Modern portfolio theory never claimed diversification would help during financial crises.   |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2008
William Harding |
Endowments Offer Investment Lessons for Retirees The number of Americans who turn 65 each week could fill a sports stadium -- and they all need income. Portfolios for people saving for retirement should be structured differently from those already there. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Somnath Basu |
Back To Basics Advisors don't need to rely on complicated models to help clients avert losses. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Bob Clark |
Boring No More With baby boomers moving into their distribution years, bonds -- and the folks who manage them -- are becoming a lot more interesting |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Foundation for Retirement Foundations and endowments can teach advisors strategies for constructing and maintaining retirement income portfolios. Here's a look at how. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Growth Spurts It's still tricky to invest for retirement, but planners are starting to seek out long-term growth. Next trick: convincing skittish clients. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
William Glasgall |
Income For Life? Well, We Hope So. A look at new products that are supposed to create "personal pensions" for your clients: Dividends Galore With ETFs... Mutual Funds Aim For Payouts... Advisors Warm To Immediate Annuities... etc. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
Different Strokes This summer's volatile markets proved that allocating funds among uncorrelated assets really does work. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning. |
Financial Advisor
February 2011
Somnath Basu |
Mistiming Retirement The portfolios of many people who retired shortly before the 2008 market crash still have not recovered. But advisors can help to mitigate such "sequence risks." |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
More Annuities Used in Income Portfolios Advisors are increasingly turning to annuities to help cover their clients' basic needs in retirement. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
Built to Last Although their strategies vary, Rob Arnott and his investment advisor peers are hewing to a long-term focus on fundamentals, valuations, costs, and taxes. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
William Harding |
A Different Mix As investors suffer through this year's unstable market, the wounded are talking about alternative investments. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Marla Brill |
Simple Solutions? Life cycle funds are expanding beyond the 401(k) market to financial advisors. Advisors considering using target date funds, whether on a limited or for a broad swath of clients, need to consider a number of features. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2010
Gallant & Schneider |
Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
Ray Fazzi |
Retirement Dreams Deferred Vanguard Group's Fran Kinniry addresses why what some call the lost decade for equities shouldn't cause clients to bail at just the wrong time. |
Investment Advisor
August 2006
Kathleen M. Mcbride |
News: Ibbotson on Asset Allocation Here Roger Ibbotson, chairman and CEO of hedge fund Zebra Capital Management, discusses how advisors can guide their clients to retirement portfolio allocations that fund longer retirements, as well as keep them comfortable when markets gyrate. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2007
Gene Fama Jr. |
Bonds for Wealth People often look to bonds for retirement income, but the raw pursuit of income can engage inadvertent risks that can be especially rough on retirees. In the end, financial security is about total wealth, not marginal income. |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Ben Warwick |
Investment Advisor's January 2011 Issue: Ben Warwick Won't Compromise on Getting Returns. Period Clients must take risks to make returns. Here's the right way to do it in 2011. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Raymond Fazzi |
Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning After a traumatic four years marked by a recession, a war on terrorism and a market decline, many advisors are rethinking their retirement planning strategies. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Geoff Considine |
Yield vs. Risk New rules for income investing not only help investors to avoid these extremes, but also show the way to create income portfolios that provide the most yield available for a given level of risk. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Huxley & Burns |
The Match Makers Advisors can use asset dedication to match client's cash flows to their liabilities. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Nest Eggs in Multiple Baskets Increasingly, employers have begun offering life cycle funds, which include broad mixes of stocks and bonds. By picking one life cycle choice, an investor can hold a nicely diversified 401(k) portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Carty & Carty |
Both Sides Of The Ledger Barra co-founder Andrew Rudd is helping advisors build portfolios that balance client resources against future claims. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Geoff Considine |
Not Without Risk Any discussion of whether the theoretical constructs of asset allocation and diversification broke down must start with a reasonable estimate of what they were supposed to provide. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2008
Allen Kenney |
On the Road to Retirement Target date funds are taking a closer look at where retirees will end up, and changes are coming that could pay dividends for REITs. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
The Big Bang Harry Markowitz invented the wheel for portfolio construction and management, and that's no exaggeration. |
Financial Advisor
July 2008
Alan Lavine |
On Target, Or Not Think you can plunk down money on any target date fund as a low-risk way to accumulate retirement savings? Think again. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2010
Matthew Leung |
Getting Retirement Portfolios Back on Track Previous assumptions about asset allocation, diversification and the appropriate levels of risk in portfolios are being challenged. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Jarrett Solomon |
The Inefficiency Of Efficient Frontiers Studies show that the theory behind the efficient frontier is much sounder than its real-world application. Theoretically, the advisor is always choosing an efficient portfolio: It is just a question of where on the frontier it is appropriate for each client. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
James Picerno |
Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
The Problem With a Long Life Academics are stepping forward, seeking to describe portfolios that will produce maximum returns while ensuring that retirees don't outlive their assets |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2008
Allen Kenney |
The Time of Your Life Life cycle funds gain popularity by enabling investors to choose tailored investment plans. REIT Usage in Life Cycle Fund Products: AllianceBernstein Retirement Strategies -- 10%... JPMorgan Smart Retirement Funds -- 4% to 6%... etc. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Suzanne McGee |
The Perfect Alternative Is there an asset class for your clients portfolios whose price moves in the opposite direction to that of mainstream investments like stocks and bonds? |
Financial Advisor
December 2011
Somnath Basu |
The VIX Fix Where in the past there was a sense of sanity, today each morning brings only apprehensions about how to understand and manage market volatility. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Ignoring the Bear And Other Mistakes Retirees Make Advisors can greatly increase their clients' odds of success by steering them away from some of the most common -- and damaging -- retirement mistakes. Here are some of the biggies to avoid: Counting on steady returns... Forgetting about taxes... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2012
Ben Mattlin |
The 4% Solution Is it still a feasible retirement withdrawal strategy? |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Lauren Barack |
The New Retirement Portfolio Repairing retirement portfolios is front and center for every advisor. Unfortunately, depending on an investor's age, rebuilding back to their old balances may not be possible. |
Financial Advisor
May 2009
David J. Drucker |
Does Asset Allocation Need A Facelift? Has the 2008 stock market changed the rules of asset allocation and how we manage asset volatility? |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Did Asset Allocation Work? Some funds claimed to protect you from the downturn. Did they deliver? |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
Jack McAllister |
On the Rise If 401(k) plan values are to rise to their potential, they could use a little more yeast -- in the form of REIT stocks... |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Retirement Income: The New Solutions The boomer retirement wave is here, and so are new products designed to turn their hoarded assets into cash flow. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Ilana Polyak |
Buy and Hope More and more advisors are rethinking a buy and hold strategy. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2010
Gerald Buetow |
In Defense Of Modern Portfolio Theory As stock markets plunged worldwide and investment portfolios took it on the chin, revisionists sought to expound on what they deemed were the inherent flaws of the deeply entrenched MPT. In short, the theory became the scapegoat for the failure of diversification. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Joel Bruckenstein |
G-Sphere Gravity Investments, LLC, a firm that specializes in something they call Diversification Intelligence, has built a software application called G-sphere that attempts to extend the utility of the efficient frontier for advisors and their clients. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Eric Rasmussen |
Withdraw, Don't Retreat Financial advisors discuss their strategies for retirement withdrawals in an era where every day in the markets is a new roll of the die. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2002
Jack McAllister |
After the Fall Companies are not waiting for Congress to act; instead leading firms are fixing their 401(k) plans... and real estate stocks are part of the solution. |
