Clearing the air on target date performance
Sigh … How many more times are we going to see articles like this, involving great wailing and gnashing of teeth over target date fund performance … in 2008? Below you’ll see a summary of unvarnished...
View ArticleMore target date “bubbles”
In my February 4 post, I complained about what I perceived as mischaracterization of the performance of target date funds because of reporting that focused on the spectacularly poor results of a few...
View ArticleInvesting in a crisis
In 2011, when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating, did you break out in a cold sweat? And when Greek voters rejected the terms of a European Union bailout, did you find yourself...
View ArticleWeighing the risk of rising interest rates on retirees
The timing of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate “liftoff” was a focal point of global economic and market news for most of last year. I was regularly asked by clients how they should be...
View ArticleWhy do retirees maintain high equity allocations?
In a prior blog post, I debunked the myth that millennials were staying out of the stock market. That was good, but I came up with a new head-scratcher. Retirees are maintaining high equity allocations...
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