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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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September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments

Brown Advisory

September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 01:00 In this issue: Investors Facing Rising Risks Need Solid Defense, Savvy Offense Increasing political and economic risk during the past year has widened the range of possible positive and negative scenarios for financial markets.

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September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments

Brown Advisory

September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments. Mon, 09/12/2016 - 01:00. By Taylor Graff, Head of Asset Allocation Research and Ed Chadwyck-Healey, Head of International Private Clients ? By Meera Patel, CFA, Director of Private Equity Fund Research and Jane Korhonen, CFA, Portfolio Manager ?

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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks achen Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25 Why Have High Dividend Yielding Sectors Done Well This Year? According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. Reach for yield.

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Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks

Brown Advisory

Asset Allocation: Caution Toward High Dividend Yielding Stocks. Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:25. According to Morningstar, overall assets in dividend-focused ETFs and mutual funds have ballooned to $672.6 billion in assets they held in 2011. S&P 500® sector characteristics using GICS Level 1 Sectors, as of 09/30/2016.

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The Super Bowl and Your Investments

The Chicago Financial Planner

Quoted in a Wall Street Journal article before the 2016 game, respected Wall Street analyst Robert Stoval said, “There is no intellectual backing for this sort of thing, except that it works.”. What impact have the solid stock market gains of the past three years had on your portfolio? Costs matter.

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Lessons From Inflation’s Return

Fortune Financial

Since I have written on the topic and its impact on financial assets on several different occasions I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit some of those ideas now that inflation has returned. Inflation drives up the correlation of long-duration financial instruments.