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For advisors structuring investment portfolios, it might be worth revisiting the conventional wisdom and ensuring your ...

A defensive investment strategy is designed to protect a portfolio from losing money during market downturns. This approach prioritizes stability over high returns and as a result earnings can be ...

Most investment portfolios are designed with growth as the primary objective. But in retirement, especially when considering long-term care needs, your portfolio must serve multiple masters. After ...

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...

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The first investment lesson from 2024 is how difficult it is to do macroeconomic forecasting, and investors should have a healthy amount of skepticism around forecasts. The second lesson is that ...

You don’t need a doctoral degree in finance to calculate your portfolio’s investment returns. A few principles are enough to turn even the most math-phobic people into shrewd investors. While basic ...

Crypto's role in diversified portfolios: managing volatility, setting clear mandates, risk discipline, and the case for ...