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Retirement
Retirement saving: Save more or take more risk?
Defined contribution plan sponsors need to help their participants manage two significant challenges: building an appropriate asset allocation and ensuring sufficient savings.
Active/Passive Management
MYTH: Active Performs Better in Certain Market Segments
When it comes to active management, believing that active managers generally perform better in certain market segments is a myth, not a reality.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Vanguard Advisor's Alpha
This Vanguard Research Insight piece explains why, when adding value is the goal, advisors may be better served by changing their performance benchmark from the market’s return to the returns that investors might achieve on their own, without professional guidance.
Active/Passive Management
The ETF Toolkit: The Professional's Guide to Exchange Traded Funds
Over the past 20+ years, ETFs have grown tremendously in terms of AUM and number of products. They now span virtually every asset class. This guide from Invesco provides an thorough overview of exchange traded funds and insight into ETF liquidity and execution.
Tax Management
Investor Education: Tax Efficient Investing
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Taxes can have a significant impact on your clients' investment returns. This guide helps them understand the importance of building and maintaining a tax-efficient portfolio.
Active/Passive Management
Investor Education: Learn About Active and Index Fund Investing
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Help your clients get a better understanding of the differences between index investing and active investing, and the merits of each approach.
Children & College Savings
Investor Education: Learn About Saving for College
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Use this practical guide to help your clients learn about the cost of sending a child to college and the many savings and tuition-payment options available.
Client Life Events
Investor Education: Learn About Caring For an Elderly Parent
This piece is approved to use with clients.
This guide helps clients manage common eldercare challenges and become familiar with care options. It also includes a list of websites clients can use to make informed eldercare decisions.
Active/Passive Management
Making the Implicit Explicit: A Framework for the Active-Passive Decision
Vanguard's new active-passive decision-making framework helps investors focus on the factors that matter most.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Financial Planning Perspectives: Invest Now or Temporarily Hold Your Cash
Systematic implementation—commonly referred to as dollar-cost averaging—might provide some protection against regret but at the cost of higher returns.
Active/Passive Management
Active and Passive Investing: The Case For Both
Read why Russell Investments believes that smart money takes a total-portfolio approach.