Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Forbes: 3 Reasons Investors Should Worry That The Ukraine War Is Far From Over

By SIMON CONSTABLE

"Things seem to be heading in the right direction, but a lot of scenarios including some bad ones, remain plausible," a new report states. Read more here.

Destroyed Russian Tank Mariupol
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Monday, March 14, 2022

Financial Analysts Journal: Targeting Retirement Security with a Dynamic Asset Allocation Strategy

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Rule-based dynamic changes to asset allocation to attain desired income levels improve performance relative to traditional static asset allocation models or age-based target-date funds. Read more here.

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Financial Analysts Journal: Levered and Inverse Exchange-Traded Products -- Blessing or Curse?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Inverse and levered ETPs are neither effective hedging tools nor useful as buy-and-hold investments. They are effective only when used for short-term bets on the direction of an asset. They are ill understood and inherently unstable. Read more here.

Crowds Gathering Outside NYSE 
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Financial Analysts Journal: Risk Management and Optimal Combination of Equity Market Factors

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Combining factors in a multi-factor portfolio using forecast risk management can add substantially to investment returns. Backtesting showed such a strategy run over 54 years would have made annualized returns of 10.79%, vs. 7.77% for a similar non-risk-managed portfolio. Read more here.

NYSE
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Financial Analysts Journal: Retirement Income Sufficiency through Personalised Glidepaths

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Retiree income can be maximised by shifting focus from targeting wealth at retirement to income sufficiency through retirement with the use of personalised glidepaths instead of approaches that use demographic averages. Read more here.

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