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Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction

The Chicago Financial Planner

Ideally you’ve been rebalancing your portfolio along the way and your asset allocation is largely in line with your plan and your risk tolerance. You should continue to monitor your portfolio and make these types of adjustments as needed. Assess whether your portfolio has held up in line with your expectations.

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Stock Market Highs and Your Retirement

The Chicago Financial Planner

At some point we are bound to see a stock market correction of some magnitude, hopefully not on the order of the 2008-09 financial crisis. However, some of the folks who experienced losses well in excess of the market averages were victims of their own over-allocation to stocks. Manage your portfolio with an eye towards downside risk.

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Equity markets at a crossroads – What is the way forward?

Truemind Capital

In this piece, we are trying to understand what the future holds and how we can prepare our investment portfolio to deal with future outcomes. After the subprime crisis in 2008, many developed countries’ Central Banks started printing money and flooding the global economies with cheap liquidity. But first a quick recap.

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The Super Bowl and Your Investments

The Chicago Financial Planner

The New York Giants (an old NFL team) won in 2008 and the market tanked in what was the start of the financial crisis. What impact have the solid stock market gains of the past three years had on your portfolio? Perhaps it’s time to rebalance and to rethink your ongoing asset allocation. Costs matter.

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Should You Worry About “Recession” Risk?

Discipline Funds

On one side you have optimists who have been saying that the US economy remains robust and on the other side you have pessimists who are worried about recession and a potential 2008 scenario. In a way both of these groups have been right. This is not a good risk adjusted return so being less aggressive in recent years has been the right move.

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. Take Europe, for instance.