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Portfolio Investing 101: Bill Bernstein
In his new book, The Investor’s Manifesto, William J. Bernstein makes a strong case not just for the idea of portfolio investing, but the fact of it. Any one of us, with a modest amount of effort, can...
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The Challenge of Diversified Investing in a Correlated World
Below is a Fidelity Investments heat map showing the investing terrain of the past year, particularly how correlated a variety of investment classes were to the S&P 500 Index over the 12 months...
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Investing in Commodities
Given the record values commodities hit in 2010 and the fact that they’ve suffered a slump so far in this still-new year, should anyone be thinking about adding commodities to their portfolio now?...
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Jeremy Grantham’s Investing Outlook for 2011, and Beyond
Jeremy Grantham founder of Boston-based asset manager and mutual fund firm GMO, has published his investing outlook for 2011. As usual it’s great fun to read and full of things to worry about. Here,...
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GMO’s Lean Investment Outlook
Bob Huebscher over at Advisor Perspectives just published an interesting article that gives an overview of Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co.’s (GMO) outlook for the coming years. The article is...
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International Investing in Uncertain Times
Political turmoil in the Middle East and Africa, a natural and nuclear disaster in Japan, rekindling European debt crises: It’s easy to understand why investors may shy away from investing in foreign...
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Standing at the Close of 2011
This has been a chaotic year in the financial world. In this latest article, I will take a look at what happened in 2011 and give my personal views on where things are going for 2012. Many Happy...
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Emerging Market Indexing
Guest post by Matthew Amster-Burton, Mint.com. We thought this was an interesting article and thought our readers would too. Enjoy. Let’s say you want to build your own stock market index fund based on...
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What Are the Core Asset Classes for Total Return Portfolios?
One of the most important questions for investors and advisors is identifying a set of asset classes that will be considered for inclusion in a portfolio. Some people will decide that all they need or...
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What Are the Core Asset Classes for Income Portfolios?
In a recent post, I presented a list of the ‘core asset classes’ that investors need in order to build portfolios that fully exploit available diversification opportunities. That article focused on...
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Is My Portfolio at the Right Risk Level?
This is the fifth installment in our series on how individual investors can assess their financial health. At every stage of investing, you should periodically ask yourself how much risk you can...
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