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Registered Rep.
February 14, 2011
Diana Britton |
Schwab Trades Up On Improved Investor Sentiment Charles Schwab's daily average trades were up 28 percent month over month in January, as investors poured money back into equity mutual funds. Trading volume increased 10 percent over January 2010.   |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen |
The Math of Recovery Resilience after a loss may be the most important asset a retirement portfolio can offer. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2009
Jennifer Schonberger |
Expert Summit: How Risk Averse Are Investors Right Now? Top financial experts weigh in on risk aversion and volatility. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Allan S. Roth |
Unappealing Alternatives: Investors Flock to Alternative Mutual Funds and ETFs Investors have been flocking to alternative mutual funds and ETFs - and are being punished for it. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Yield at Any Price? Shocked from the Flash Crash, nervous about the potential fallout from the European sovereign debt crisis and distressed about high unemployment, investors fled equity mutual fund categories and poured their money into fixed income. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Stacy Schultz |
Record-Breaker The second quarter of 2009 was a record-breaker for mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2011
Diana Britton |
Retail Investors Still Risk Averse, Pull Money Out of Equity Mutual Funds Despite an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap, retail investors still have a risk-averse bias, according to recent fund flows. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
How to Lose Money in a Volatile Market Unless you want to lose a lot more money from trying to time the market, don't flee stocks when the going gets rough. |
Registered Rep.
March 12, 2012
Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: Are Investors Starting to Wake up and Smell the Rally? For months, we've been scratching our heads over why retail investors have been fleeing U.S. equity mutual funds and flocking to bond funds and U.S. Treasuries, where yields are practically non-existent. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2010
Diana Britton |
Are Retail Investors (Finally) Warming Up to Equities? Up until this month, analysts at Morningstar have noticed a divergence between individual investors, who have been gung ho for bonds, and money managers, who have mostly been bullish on equities -- and bearish on bonds. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2010
Joseph A. Tomlinson |
No Sucker's Bet? If there were a prize for the most disparaged asset class, it would likely go to bonds. And the most disparaged bonds would almost certainly be Treasuries. |
Financial Planning
January 5, 2008
Craig L. Israelsen |
Stay Low Maintaining a low correlation among a portfolio's assets in the distribution phase can help avoid potentially devastating losses. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Young & Gutner |
Why You Belong In Bonds Even when rates rise, bond funds provide a market cushion. We've done the math to find the best ones for right now. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2011 |
Investment Update: Change And Chaos Drive Demand Five experts on equities, bonds, retirement, actively managed exchange-traded funds and commodities offer their analysis of where to look for upside this year, and where to expect pitfalls. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2005
Donald Jay Korn |
Foreign Intrigue Financial planners need a passport to follow the money that's flooding into overseas mutual funds, but the wave may be about to break. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2011
Daniel Jay Korn |
Outlook 2011: A Modest Proposal Hopefully this year's results will skew more toward boom than gloom. Even so, planners might want to add a few safe havens to clients' portfolios in case the three-peat turns out to be yet another 21st-century bear market. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2011
Jeff Tjornehoj |
Finding The Cracks In Your Clients' Portfolios Which strategies are best able to deflect volatility in client portfolios when real market stress shows up? |
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
May 1, 2005
Pamela Black |
Starting Off with a Whimper Domestic mutual funds limped through the first quarter, while anxious investors looked abroad. Only natural resources bucked the trend. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
2 Investments That Will Benefit From Eurozone Drama Bring on the crisis! The region appears almost certainly headed toward recession, while talk of certain countries leaving the euro is becoming more widespread. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2010
John Rosevear |
You Need This Offbeat Investment Some funds -- which Morningstar calls "moderate allocation" funds -- take nonstandard approaches to investing: Some take short positions, some buy and sell options, some invest in commodities, some combine all of the above and more. |
Registered Rep.
April 5, 2011
Stan Luxenberg |
A Bond Bear Market? Not to Worry, Follow Vanguard's Bogle's System Under most scenarios, bonds will deliver modestly positive returns in coming years. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
Desperate for Returns Investors sat on the sidelines as the market deteriorated in the second quarter. Nonetheless, some niche parts of the market held up amidst the turmoil. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen |
Should Investors Avoid Fixed Income Securities When Interest Rates Rise? Why not test the conventional wisdom that investors should avoid fixed-income securities when interest rates rise? |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Follow Bill Gross Off the Cliff PIMCO bond maven Bill Gross throws in the towel. Should you? |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Whitney Kisling |
As Market Pessimism Grows, Should You Buy Stocks? Investors are disenchanted with the market. To contrarians, that constitutes signs of a rally |
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
July 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
Down But Not Out For mutual funds, 2008 was the year of the ebb tide: Long-term funds saw net outflows of $226 billion. The carnage continued in the first quarter of 2009, when an additional $43 billion flowed out of equity funds. |
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 Advisor
March 2005
Marla Brill |
Squeezing Gains Out Of Bonds In 2005 It's a bond picker's market. Beware of corporate releveraging. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2012
Donna Mitchell |
Optimism Reigns Mutual fund investors were an optimistic bunch in the fourth quarter. They clung to hopes of a U.S. economic recovery, even after enduring lots of bumps and two major shocks that left the S&P 500 up just 5.8% for the quarter, a shadow of the strong 10.8% from the same period a year earlier. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
The Rising Tide What a difference three months make. Bouncing back from a second quarter defined by uncertainty and volatility, mutual fund investors believed that the markets were turning a corner-or at least could not get much worse. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Geri Smith |
Emerging-Market Bonds: The Ride Just Got Bumpier Emerging-market bonds sizzled for the past year, as interest rates in U.S. Treasuries dropped to the lowest levels in decades. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2006
Bob Hirschfeld |
Ninth-Inning Save Although indexes were lackluster, large caps rallied toward the end of the year. |
Financial Advisor
December 2008
Eric Uhlfelder |
Where Are We Headed? This year will be remembered as one of the worst investors have ever known. Extreme caution is required before moving back into the markets in 2009. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen |
How Planners Can Use Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities for a Portfolio If Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are added to an equity-based portfolio, what is their impact on returns and volatility? |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2005
Nathan Slaughter |
Mutual Fund Meltdown Have you assembled your funds in a carefully orchestrated portfolio or in a haphazard collection? Collecting mutual funds is not a safe pastime. It's a financial disaster waiting to happen. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Charles Stein |
A Boom in Bonds Hurts Mutual Funds Investors' preference for bond funds has put pressure on earnings at companies that specialize in stock funds. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Schwab Gets the Job Done Schwab's October 2008 volume was 56% ahead of last October. In addition, the discount broker attracted 91,000 new accounts. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Kisling & Kearns |
The Stock Market Is Calm. You're Warned Stocks haven't risen this much with such narrow price swings since 1971. This puts equities at risk for short-term loss. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
Surprise, Surprise As markets plunged around them, investors ran to the only safe havens left in the third quarter -- U.S. Treasuries and cold, hard cash. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Huxley & Burns |
Silver Lining Investors can limit fixed income losses due to rising interest rates by laddering individual bonds and holding them to maturity. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Death of Bonds? You shouldn't give up on bonds entirely, but neither should you rely on them to support you without help from other investments. |
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
Head South, Investors! Fund managers are demonstrating some fatigue with Asian markets and appear to be rotating into other regions, especially Latin America, where relative value may be more appealing, according to a survey. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005 |
A Fixed-Income Fund with a Twist Bill Eigen of Fidelity Strategic Income says a broadly diversified focus and careful risk management help his fund outperform |
Financial Advisor
December 2010
Eric Uhlfelder |
Going Global Investors have entered some less explored foreign corners of the debt market in their search for yield. So far, it has been paying off, but caution is needed. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
Disappearing Act In light of the recent market implosion, clients are anxious to make up for lost time (and returns). When their needs in retirement are unrealistic, their portfolios cannot support them. However, the composition of their portfolios can mitigate the blow. |
