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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. |
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 Planning May 1, 2005 Litman & Gregory |
Mutual Fund Monitor Here is a brief run-through of our defensive fat-pitch asset classes: Commodity futures... Foreign bonds... etc. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Alan Lavine |
Betting On Currency Some advisors think investors may benefit by adding currency positions; others aren't sure. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor The current difference in inflation-adjusted fund yields has narrowed, suggesting that foreign bonds no longer have a valuation advantage over U.S. bonds. Plus, the dollar may not be as overvalued as it once was in relation to several developed regions, Europe in particular. |
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? |
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 Planning November 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts. |
Investment Advisor September 2010 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani |
Overlooked Managers: Two Guys With Two Goals For Sierra Investment Management, understanding risk inherent in every asset class has enabled it to outperform, while avoiding the worst disasters in financial market history. |
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 Planning May 1, 2008 Mark Willoughby |
Volatility Bites For those who had begun to underestimate the impact volatility can have on managing investment portfolios, the events of 2007 and early 2008 have been a sobering reminder. |
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. 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). |
Financial Advisor May 2010 Alan Lavine |
Watch Your Investment Tail Advisors are using options to insure portfolios against "once in a lifetime" losses. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Jeff Schlegel |
An Alternative World A growing number of financial advisors and their clients are clamoring for alternative investments in the wake of the massive market maelstrom of '08-'09, but it's a broad space requiring lots of due diligence. |
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. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca |
Income from Where? Financial advisors are realizing the mean variance efficient frontier model is flawed for retirement planning. The main shortcoming is its focus on a portfolio's risk-return tradeoff in terms of returns rather than generation of sustainable income. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 David A. Twibell |
Bonds Away Despite their checkered past, emerging market bond funds have attracted record capital inflows and rewarded investors with stellar returns. |
BusinessWeek December 12, 2005 Lewis Braham |
Funds Made To Deliver "Absolute return" mutual funds aim for a positive result no matter how the stock market does. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Elizabeth Wine |
Active Resistance It's not been a good recovery for actively managed mutual funds. Investors have been steadily pulling money out, while sending waves of cash into passively managed index funds and exchange-traded funds. |
Investment Advisor March 2007 Susan L. Hirshman |
Managing Fear, Maintaining Your Edge How to educate and enlighten your clients on alternative investments. |
Registered Rep. December 22, 2009 Stan Luxenberg |
Forget Stock Market Gains, It's Best to Avoid Losses Many financial advisors and portfolio managers who held to traditional buy-and-hold stock-bond portfolios are now emphasizing new kinds of diversification. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Len Reinhart |
Retirement Hedges To meet your clients' needs, your process will have to include planning for each stage of their retirement years. If used correctly, alternative investments can reduce risk in lifetime investment plans. |
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. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Matthew Lemieux |
Market Uncertainty Drives Investors Toward Index-Based Equity Funds European sovereign debt concerns and the U.S. debt-ceiling debacle spurred market volatility, pushing investors toward index-based equity funds. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Mike Patton |
Tactical Versus Strategic In strategic asset allocation, long-term capital expectations are integrated with a client's goals and a target allocation is established. With tactical asset allocation, adjustments are made based on short-term expectations for an asset class. |
Investment Advisor April 2006 Maya Ivanova |
Self Improvement In the recent supplement to the 2005 Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Survey, many advisors recognize that simply maintaining the status quo is not enough. They're continuously examining their business plans and investment processes to look for improvements. |
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. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Stephen Savage |
What Just Happened The magnitude of this market decline exceeds the frame of reference of nearly every advisor in business today, and most of their clients. What approach can advisors take with shell-shocked clients? |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Robert F. Keane |
Far From Fossilized Advisors Capital Management looks to provide clients with true individual portfolios of diversified securities at a much lower cost than is possible with mutual funds. |
Investment Advisor July 2006 |
The Currency Conundrum As if investors don't have enough to worry about as they wrestle with the proper allocation of stocks, bonds, commodities, and hedge funds, and philosophical questions regarding passive versus active management, here comes another beast to tackle -- currency exposure. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Evan Simonoff |
Absolute Return Obsession With the correlation landscape changing, the interest in absolute return funds is growing. |
Investment Advisor September 2008 |
21st Century Asset Allocation Over the past several years, institutional investors increasingly have opted to allocate a portion of their portfolios to alternative investments as a way to smooth out market volatility. This trend is now spreading to the retail marketplace. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine |
SMAs Tough It Out Those managers who rose to the top of the heap in the separately managed accounts industry carefully researched and weighed their options before making their moves. And it wasn't easy. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2011 Matthew Lemieux |
The Growth of Non-Traditional Strategies When added to an investment portfolio, non-traditional approaches in mutual funds may create opportunities for return enhancement or risk reduction. |
Investment Advisor August 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Time for an Alternative The volatile market is sparking more use of alternative assets |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Aaron Pressman |
Allocation Funds Are on the Rise New funds that switch among different asset classes are gaining popularity with investors tired of constant loss. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2008 Daniel Thurmaier |
Boring Is Beautiful As investors' nerves fray, typically ho-hum mutual fund classes suddenly became sexy as they calmly stay the course, seemingly oblivious to crashing housing markets and lenders gone wild. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Huxley & Burns |
The Match Makers Advisors can use asset dedication to match client's cash flows to their liabilities. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor Assessing Assets: Domestic equities... Growth stocks... Small caps... Investment-grade bonds... etc. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Susan Weiner |
Foreign Indebtedness The falling dollar has sparked an interest in international bonds, but advisers remain cautious. |
Investment Advisor October 2008 Maya Ivanova |
War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses. |
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 September 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Upper-Left Quadrant Prudent investing requires the construction of multi-asset portfolios. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Marion Asnes |
The New, New Economy The real estate crisis is still going on. Oil prices have skyrocketed. The financial markets are swinging like pendulums. Welcome to the new economy. |
Registered Rep. January 27, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Don't Dump Your Muni Mutual Funds The municipal default rate remains tiny, and yields on high-quality bonds are relatively rich. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Suzanne McGee |
Other Alternatives Advisors will need to devote more time to scrutinizing the ever-growing number of new products. And with each debut, they'll have to go back to the drawing board and decide whether the product makes the grade. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Michael Johnston |
3 Low-Volatility ETF Options Smooth out your volatility and lower your blood pressure with these three ETFs. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Leave Your Investments on Autopilot An occasional look can reveal profitable adjustments to your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Going Global With Bonds International investing isn't just about stocks. With yields on Treasury bonds still hovering below 5%, the high yields offered by some foreign issuers can look extremely appealing. |