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Fixed Income Insights
Municipal Perspectives: Sometimes the Slow Lane is Faster
In Vanguard municipal perspectives for the second quarter of 2018, Chris Alwine, head of Vanguard Municipal Group, and Edward J. Saracino, senior product manager, explain why our portfolio managers are reducing risk in our municipal funds.
Active/Passive Management
Making the Implicit Explicit: A Framework for the Active-Passive Decision
Vanguard's new active-passive decision-making framework helps investors focus on the factors that matter most.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Financial Planning Perspectives: Invest Now or Temporarily Hold Your Cash
Systematic implementation—commonly referred to as dollar-cost averaging—might provide some protection against regret but at the cost of higher returns.
Philanthropy
Charitable Giving: Three Steps to a Successful Plan
This Vanguard research paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of common charitable giving strategies, and it presents examples to show their effects.
Behavioral Finance
Trust and Financial Advice
Vanguard researchers break down strategies advisors can use to build greater trust with their clients.
Investing Ideas
Vanguard's Principles for Investing Success
Vanguard's guidance for investors is centered on four core principles: Define clear goals, choose diversified portfolio holdings that balance risk and potential reward, minimize cost, and stay disciplined over the long term.
Children & College Savings
529 Plan Savers Earn Better Grades For Behavior
Vanguard's latest research note, 529 plan savers earn better grades for behavior, reveals that more investors are using 529s than ever before.
Investing Ideas
Trade Status: It's Complicated
Understanding the current—and potentially future—state of the global economy helps investors put market movements into context. To promote that understanding, researchers from Vanguard Investment Strategy Group examine the economic trends that affect the investing environment.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Vanguard's Framework for Constructing Globally Diversified Portfolios
This research paper discusses creating and maintaining globally diversified portfolios and shares a framework you can use to build portfolios around clients' investment goals and constraints.
Behavioral Finance
From Plan to Portfolio
Advisors integrating planning into their practices face new challenges. Of critical importance is the advisor’s ability to translate client needs into financial solutions and to communicate how those solutions meet their goals. Needs-based planning builds confidence in the advisor and helps clients avoid costly emotional decisions which can sabotage long-term results.
Investing Ideas
How Investors Select Advisors
The first installment in a Vanguard research series identifies five types of advised investors, based on their knowledge levels and interests, and suggests ways to satisfy each.
Retirement
From Assets to Income: A Goals-Based Approach to Retirement Spending
Understand Vanguard's approach to spending and saving in retirement without relying on guaranteed sources of income.