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Have you committed these investing blunders?

Date07 Sep 2015

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The financial worries that keep Americans up at night run the gamut from cradle to grave: daily expenses, college education, retirement nest eggs. While stressing over the big fiscal picture, many investors easily fall into some costly—but very much avoidable—financial traps. We asked the CNBC Digital Financial Advisor Council to weigh in with some of...

Does currency risk add value in the fixed income markets?

Date07 Sep 2015

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Q: Does currency risk add value in the fixed income markets? A: As interest rates on high quality bonds have remained relatively low, some investors continue to search for ways to achieve higher returns in the fixed income markets. One strategy that has been in the news frequently is the idea of purchasing non-U.S. dollar...

The Cheap Volatility Illusion

Date07 Sep 2015

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As I write this on Aug. 10, despite all the economic problems facing investors (such as Greece, the slowing Chinese economy, a bear market in Chinese stocks, the collapse in commodity prices and Puerto Rico’s default), the VIX index, a measure of the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility, had closed above 14 only once since...

Don’t Join The China Panic

Date07 Sep 2015

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It’s not as if investors didn’t already have enough to worry about with the Greek crisis, Puerto Rico’s default, the Iranian nuclear agreement, ISIS, the Fed ending its zero-interest-rate policy in the near future, and gurus such as GMO’s Jeremy Grantham proclaiming that the market is vastly overvalued based on the Shiller CAPE 10 ratio....

The millennial future

Date07 Sep 2015

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Given changes in the jobs market and retirement savings options, how can risk-averse millennial investors in their 20s and 30s secure their futures? CNBC Senior Personal Finance correspondent Sharon Epperson discusses the future for Gen Y workers with certified financial planners Tim Maurer, of The… Read the rest of the article on CNBC.

‘Gurus’ Without A Clue

Date24 Aug 2015

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In my role as director of research for The BAM Alliance, a community of more than 140 registered investment advisor firms, I’m frequently asked both by clients and other advisors to address the issues raised by market “gurus” who make forecasts in the financial media. These forecasts often create anxiety, so investors naturally ask whether...

Financialization And Commodities

Date24 Aug 2015

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Slightly more than a decade ago, several studies were published raising the possibility that an allocation to commodities (in the shape of fully collateralized futures) could improve the efficiency of a portfolio due to the diversification benefit (the low to negative correlation of commodities to both stocks and nominal bonds) provided through including this asset...

When it comes to investing, rely on long-term wisdom

Date24 Aug 2015

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When it comes to the market’s peaks and troughs, investors often don’t react as rationally as they might think. In fact, in times of extreme volatility or poor performance, emotions threaten to commandeer our common sense and warp our memory. It’s called recency bias. Recency bias is basically the tendency to think that trends and...

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