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Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction

The Chicago Financial Planner

Ideally you’ve been rebalancing your portfolio along the way and your asset allocation is largely in line with your plan and your risk tolerance. You should continue to monitor your portfolio and make these types of adjustments as needed. Assess whether your portfolio has held up in line with your expectations.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. It was the year I made partner, actually, in 2008. I did that for a couple of years. SALISBURY: Absolutely.

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The Super Bowl and Your Investments

The Chicago Financial Planner

The New York Giants (an old NFL team) won in 2008 and the market tanked in what was the start of the financial crisis. What impact have the solid stock market gains of the past three years had on your portfolio? Perhaps it’s time to rebalance and to rethink your ongoing asset allocation. Costs matter.

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Stock Market Highs and Your Retirement

The Chicago Financial Planner

At some point we are bound to see a stock market correction of some magnitude, hopefully not on the order of the 2008-09 financial crisis. However, some of the folks who experienced losses well in excess of the market averages were victims of their own over-allocation to stocks. Manage your portfolio with an eye towards downside risk.

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What Are You Willing To Give Up In Pursuit Of All-Weather

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The idea of building an All-Weather portfolio of course has its appeal. The basic idea is to be much less volatile than the broad market or the typical 60/40 portfolio. It raises the question though of how much performance should an investor expect or be willing give up for the potential emotional comfort of an All-Weather portfolio.

Portfolio 102
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Should You Worry About “Recession” Risk?

Discipline Funds

On one side you have optimists who have been saying that the US economy remains robust and on the other side you have pessimists who are worried about recession and a potential 2008 scenario. In a way both of these groups have been right. This is not a good risk adjusted return so being less aggressive in recent years has been the right move.

Economy 102
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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. Take Europe, for instance.