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Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Vanguard Advisor's Alpha
This Vanguard Research Insight piece explains why, when adding value is the goal, advisors may be better served by changing their performance benchmark from the market’s return to the returns that investors might achieve on their own, without professional guidance.
Client Relationships
Deep Dive: The GRIND - A Key Ingredient for Advisor Success
Join Laura Hutchison, a Practice Management Consultant at Russell Investments and Tim Halverson a Regional Director, at Russell Investments, as they explore the 5 traits we believe makes an advisor successful.
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.
Investing Ideas
An Interest Rate Hedging Diagnostic
This piece is approved to use with clients.
One of the biggest strategic decisions faced by defined benefit pension plans is that of choosing an interest rate hedge ratio.
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.
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.
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.
Client Relationships
Breaking the Mold: Engaging Female Investors
For advisors attempting to deepen their relationship with women clients and prospects, an event tailored to women may make a big difference.