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Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium

ClearMoney

As with many things in life, the truth is somewhere between the extremes: While both simulated and real-world data suggest momentum may not be suitable as a driver of long-term asset allocations, we believe momentum considerations can be integrated in a cost-effective way to help inform daily portfolio management decisions. A Matter of Time.

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Demystifying Systematic Fixed Income Investing

ClearMoney

In Dimensional’s case, systematic fixed income is hardly new; we have been managing fixed income portfolios since 1983. For example, a bond trading like one rated BBB may become ineligible for a portfolio restricted to securities rated AA and above, even if its stated rating meets the portfolio’s guidelines.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. So we really think that it creates alignment to have our portfolio managers meaningfully owning shares of the funds that they manage.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Manager Characteristics.

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Seven ways to talk your financial execs out of jargon and bad writing

Investment Writing

Power and Associates to recommend boosting investor trust with methods that include honest communication about investment performance and plain explanations for fees and commissions, according to “Study: Why focus on people, not profits, increases investor trust.” It’s entertaining.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Are commissions bad? If you didn’t want equity risk tied to your income, you would structure the portfolio for cash flow using fixed income, which has interest rate risk. They structure the portfolio to provide current income and draw down 4% from the portfolio’s dividends and interest while keeping the portfolio intact.