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The Importance of Avoiding Big Losses
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The Best Way to Make Money, Is to Not Lose It — This post examines the claim that minimizing losses is more important to the ultimate success of an investment plan than maximizing gains.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Taking the Long View
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Short-Term Views May Fall Short for Goals-Based Investing: The risk to both retail and professional investors is tinkering and tweaking portfolios in response to short-term “noise” and recent performance. The primary objective for investors with long-term goals should be to achieve their goals on time. Long-term goals require a longer-term view of the markets and risks.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Trailing vs Rolling Returns
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Redefining the Conversation about Returns: Help investors keep their "eyes on the prize", or that long-term goal, while helping them to avoid getting caught up in the fixating of chasing short-term returns or 'beating the market'.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Thinking Outside the Mailbox
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Redefining Income in a Low Yield World: Historically, investors in or near retirement have relied primarily on bonds for “mailbox money” necessary to fund their golden years. Going forward, investors and advisors will need to redefine their concept of “income” and reconsider how they fill their “mailbox”.
Investing Ideas
Rebalancing Through Market Drawdowns
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Our analysis indicates that prudent rebalancing can yield potential benefits in market drawdowns and subsequent recoveries.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Economy and Markets: An Ongoing Disconnect
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Capital markets have improved, but complacent investors may be overlooking still-challenging economic fundamentals.
Investing Ideas
Does Staying the Course Still Make Sense?
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Acting on emotion or trying to anticipate the market's direction can compromise a portfolio's long-term return potential.
Investing Ideas
Valuing the Smaller Things
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We believe there is a return- and a risk-based case for significant strategic allocations to small- and mid-cap value stocks.