Investment Strategies
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Morningstar Adds Managed Accounts
By Staff WriterAdvisors who are looking at managed accounts for stocks may want to examine a new offering from Morningstar Investment Services, Managed Portfolios Select Stock Baskets,...
February 01, 2007
Asset Allocation, February 2007To learn this month's recommended asset allocations of Investment Advisor's panel of distinguished economists and money managers, click here
February 01, 2007
A Matter of StyleBy Craig Callahan, founder and president of Icon Advisers in Denver, and C. Thomas Howard, professor of finance at the Daniels College of Business, also...
February 01, 2007
Separate Accounts Capture More AssetsPMFM has caught onto a trend, or is perhaps helping cause the trend, with its emphasis on the use of separate accounts for its clients...
February 01, 2007
Investing With StyleIn a series of articles appearing in Investment Advisor (September 2005, January 2006, and February 2006), we criticized the market-cap/value-growth characteristic grid used for categorizing...
January 19, 2007
529 Tool Crosses Bordersoseph Hurley, founder of Savingforcollege.com, has announced an enhancement to the site's State Tax 529 Calculator. As they have in the past, users supply their state of residence, marital status, and the investment they intend to make in the 529 plan in dollars for the year. The calculator then demonstrates...
January 18, 2007
Getting In on IPOsThere may be nothing in the investment field that generates more passionate and varied emotion than the topic of initial public offerings (IPOs). For clients who have not been able to get into enough IPOs on their own, or who want professional management of an IPO portfolio, there is a...
January 17, 2007
Energy Outlook for 2007While S&P projects real U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) growth will slow to 2.3% in 2007 from 3.3% in 2006, the world economy looks solid. S&P Economics is calling for global GDP growth of 3.2% in 2007 vs. 3.8% in 2006, driven by growth in emerging countries, particularly China. This...