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Is It Time to Sell Stocks?

ClearMoney

The report examined the results of two types of funds7, each holding a mix of stocks and bonds: Balanced: Minimal change in allocation to stocks. Tactical Asset Allocation: Periodic shifts in allocation to stocks. Arnott, “Tactical Asset Allocation: Don’t Try This at Home,” Morningstar, September 20, 2021.

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Is Active vs. Passive Actually Passé?

ClearMoney

Index construction rules are often designed to accommodate the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the indexes, reducing index turnover, for example, by limiting the number of rebalancing events and imposing thresholds on security weight changes. Please read the prospectus before investing.

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Market Review 2021: A Recovery Amid Challenges

ClearMoney

In addition to the effective vaccines, markets were buoyed by a number of other positive developments, including strong corporate earnings and increased consumer demand. Concentrating your portfolio in a few hot stocks or cryptocurrencies—like focusing on any small number of holdings—can expose investors to substantial risk.

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Empower (formerly Personal Capital) Review – Managing All Your Investments in One Place

Good Financial Cents

One thing that I have craved for investors is a tool that allows you to sync all your financial accounts – your investment portfolio, checking and savings accounts, credit cards and other loan accounts – in one place, and then provides an investment-related analysis of your entire portfolio.

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Resilient Consumers Have Not Saved Retail Stocks | Weekly Market Commentary | December 5, 2022

James Hendries

Economic and corporate data support the initial strong reads on holiday retail sales despite the macro headwinds, reinforcing the idea that today’s consumer is in a better position than usual at this point in the business cycle. Retail Sales Data Supports Initial Holiday Shopping Trends. over the last 20 years, pre-2020.

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Market Responses to Fed (in)Action | Weekly Market Commentary | June 20, 2023

James Hendries

As such, we don’t think it will be long before official government numbers reflect the decrease in rent prices. LPL’s Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) recommends a neutral tactical allocation to equities, with a modest overweight to fixed income funded from cash.

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Tax Loss Harvesting: Upside To A Down Market

Brown Advisory

Tax loss harvesting (the process of realizing a loss on the sale of an asset, in order to mitigate taxes on subsequent capital gains) is one of those planning steps. We have been talking with an increasing number of clients about this topic recently, and wanted to share some basic concepts related to tax loss harvesting.

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