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• Portfolio Rebalancing Experiment

  
  Michael James on Money — Authority: 549
  Following up on last week’s musings on using portfolio rebalancing with a 100% stock portfolio , I decided to run an experiment using real stock prices. The goal is to see what benefit rebalancing brings over buy-and-hold. Fairly arbitrarily, I decided to divide the portfolio into half Canadian and half US ...
  8 hours ago

• Investing by the seat of their pants

  
  Abnormal Returns — Authority: 611
  We have been in the midst of a debate as to the benefits (or not) of a buy-and-hold investment methodology.  Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture highlights some recent research showing that some portfolio managers are able to exploit macroeconomic data to outperform their benchmarks.  What hasn’t worked has ...
  17 hours ago

• When to Change Portfolio Managers

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Some Considerations for Medical ProfessionalsBy Clifton N. McIntire, Jr.; CIMA, CFP®By Lisa Ellen McIntire; CIMA, CFP®Sometimes even the best made physician financial plans just don’t work out. And, despite extensive time and energy spent on due diligence before hiring an investment or portfolio manager, it ...
  1 day ago

• Better water-management can keep water borne diseases at bay: Trivedi

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov. 10 (ANI): Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dinesh Trivedi, on Tuesday called for the need to have better water management, as it could help in keeping many water borne diseases like Dengue at bay.“If you don’t do water management then if it’s drought or its floods or it’s ...
  1 day ago

• How to pick the right Mutual Fund?

  
  Prajna Capital - An Investment Guide — Authority: 128
  Mutual funds are a convenient way to invest in the markets. Numerous fund houses offer a wide platter of schemes. The choice before the investor is so wide, that he is often baffled. Some investors who have tasted attractive returns in the past believe that all funds can work the magic for them. When they get mediocre ...
  2 days ago

• The Enterprising Investor’s Guide 11/9/2009

  
  The Razor's Edge — Authority: 132
  The price-to-peak earnings multiple increased to 12.0x as of last week’s close.  Reported macroeconomic data was generally positive over the last week with positive surprises coming from the ISM manufacturing index and pending home sales data.  Same-store sales rose for the second straight month which stoked hopes ...
  2 days ago

• Podcast #175 — As Your Wealth Grows, Increase Your Stock Allocation

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 124
  I’ve posted Podcast #175 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called As Your Wealth Grows, Increase Your Stock Allocation. With more wealth, you have more Staying Power. With more Staying Power, you should be going with the higher-return asset class. That’s stocks (presuming that prices are at ...
  3 days ago

• A Random Walk Up Sales Street – 20

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 121
  A Search for Superstar Nomenees and A Search for Reasons First the search for reasons: It was a sunny week on Sales Street this past week, so I spent a lot of time out and about selling, being sold to and interacting with other sales types.  Maybe it’s the time of year, leaves changing and falling, I am not ...
  3 days ago

• Your Average Australian Super Fund

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Now theres a real decoupling. Fridays unemployment figures came out in America. They showed that 8.2 million Americans have lost their job since the GFC began in 2007. The official unemployment rate (the one that under-measures actual unemployment) is at 10.2% and growing. The Aussie employment report comes out on ...
  3 days ago

• Very Long-Term Asset Allocation Results

  
  Perspectives — Authority: 463
  Nobody has the time or patience to wait 82 years to experience the long-term, but if they did (or if they wanted to bet on the future based on the long-term past), here is how a simple allocation between the S&P 500 index and the U.S. Aggregate Bond index worked out from 1926 through 2008. Related proxy funds:  ...
  3 days ago

• Australia warns of unauthorised World Cup tickets

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 155
  At least one unauthorised website is touting tickets to next year’s football World Cup in South Africa, Australia’s consumer watchdog said as it warned of potential fraud in online ticketing. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said an international review of thousands of websites, including ...
  4 days ago

• Musical Interlude

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 618
  Among the people who have been updating The Theory of Finance for the ObamaNation is Gregg Sommerville, whose job depends to some significant extent on people not believing the following riff: More music below the fold. The Bailout Rap and the Subprime Mortgage Blues
  4 days ago

• Global Asset Class Performance Chart (Nov 2- Nov 6)

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 644
  Here is last week’s performance of different major global financial markets:Gold, currently the most actively monitored commodity, is this week’s most preferred investment and the subsequent asset class leader. As the chart above illustrates, the precious metal, which is again being viewed as a...
  4 days ago

• Another hoard!

  
  Antiquarian's Attic — Authority: 110
  From another one of my roving reporters. From Scotland this time – dated between 300-50BC: £1m golden hoard rewrites history of ancient Scotland An enthusiast with a metal detector has unearthed a £1 million hoard of Iron Age gold necklaces from a field near Stirling in a discovery that is set to ...
  4 days ago

• Congress-NCP negotiations settled, new Maharashtra Govt. to take oath on Saturday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Mumbai, Nov 5 (ANI): The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday reached a broad understanding on the portfolio allocation in Maharashtra.Union Defence Minister A K Antony, who is in-charge of party affairs in Maharashtra, announced this after a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi. ...
  6 days ago

• Peter Gleick: Doing Desalination Wrong: Poseidon on the Public Dole

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 474
  Many people believe that desalination of seawater is the ultimate solution to California (and the planet’s) water problems. I’ve written about desalination in previous posts (see here and here ), and have made it clear that I love the idea. In theory. And in select locations. In practice, however, ...
  1 week ago

• Keys To Converting Your Sales

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 121
  The great thing about sales is the volume of information available to those that have the time to read it, and some you should, especially those on the Blogroll to the right.  I suppose with Sales 2.0 you can double that, add the wave of info relating to selling in a recession – in a recovery – in whatever, and ...
  1 week ago

• Beyond the S&P 500

  
  The Investment Fiduciary — Authority: 108
  If you are like most investors, your equity portfolio will have a few auspiciously named stock funds and a few company stocks you feel comfortable with. You think you are well-diversified, but you really are only investing in the universe of the S&P 500 – the largest 500 stocks of the US equity market. No ...
  1 week ago

• NCP will ‘definitely’ join Maharashtra ministry: Praful Patel (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel Tuesday said his party will “definitely” be part of the next government in Maharashtra and said all power sharing issues with the Congress would be solved “in a day or two”.“We will definitely be joining the government (in ...
  1 week ago

• Does Vanguard Feel Threatened By Tactical Asset Strategies?

  
  market folly — Authority: 617
  Thanks to a reader for bringing this back to our attention. Today we want to highlight an intriguing research piece from back in 2006 from index-fund giant Vanguard. Back then, they put out an interesting white paper on evaluating tactical strategies entitled, "A Primer on Tactical Asset Allocation." The fact that ...
  1 week ago

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