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Alternative Investments
The Case for Real Assets: Staying Ahead of Inflation
Investors’ real rate of return = Nominal rate of return – Inflation rate. Learn about how inflation can affect your clients' real assets.
Investing Ideas
What is a Stock Worth?
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Implications for Equity Investing at Historic Valuations
Alternative Investments
What is a Hedged Equity?
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Simple, straight-forward explanation of a fast-growing sub-category of investment strategies.
Alternative Investments
What is a Put Option?
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Simple, Straight Talk on Put Options.
Alternative Investments
All Options on the Table: Holistic Investment Strategies for a Volatile, Low-Yield World
In the 10-part module-based video education series, All Options on the Table: Holistic Investment Strategies for a Volatile, Low-Yield World, gain practical insights on the due diligence and portfolio implementation of options and option-based strategies. The modules allow professionals to dive into the subject matter they desire at their own pace. Member and non-member registration for the first-of-its-kind course can be found here.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Thinking Outside the Mailbox
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Redefining Income in a Low Yield World: Historically, investors in or near retirement have relied primarily on bonds for “mailbox money” necessary to fund their golden years. Going forward, investors and advisors will need to redefine their concept of “income” and reconsider how they fill their “mailbox”.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Risk Speedometer: Easing off the brake
In January, the 1-month risk speedometer continued to remain below its 5-year average, recording a score of –0.61 and landing slightly above the 25th percentile of rankings. Similarly, based on the 3- and 12-month speedometers, the appetite for risk remained low.
Manager & Investment Selection
The six key components for choosing an index asset manager
Are all index asset managers the same? Learn what separates the best managers from the rest of the industry.
Active/Passive Management
MYTH: Active Performs Better in Certain Market Segments
When it comes to active management, believing that active managers generally perform better in certain market segments is a myth, not a reality.
Active/Passive Management
Investor Education: Learn About Active and Index Fund Investing
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Help your clients get a better understanding of the differences between index investing and active investing, and the merits of each approach.
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.