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PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT RESOURCES

 

Portfolio Management: It's a Balancing Act

Basic Truths About Portfolio Management: A Consensus View Among the Experts

What Different Conditions Will Affect My Asset Allocation?

FEATURED PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT ARTICLES

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 PORTFOLIO OBSERVER  

The Portfolio Observer is an ongoing research effort that reports on asset allocation and diversification strategies for our members.


Investment Benchmarks 1 yr 5 yrs 10 yrs
Large-Cap Stocks -11.22% 6.79% 4.60%
Mid-Cap Stocks -4.47% 10.33% 11.99%
Small-Cap Stocks -6.65% 10.37% 10.09%
International Stocks -12.76% 13.60% 5.88%
Emerging Markets Stocks -11.02% 22.86% 17.56%
Intermediate Bonds 9.75% 5.15% 5.95%
Short-Term Bonds -6.65% 10.67% 10.09%

Asset Allocation Returns 1 yr 5 yrs 10 yrs
Aggressive Portfolio -7.1% 11.0% 8.9%
Moderate Portfolio -3.3% 9.2% 7.9%
Conservative Portfolio -1.3% 7.6% 7.0%


You’ve carefully weighed in your own mind how you want your retirement portfolio to look: just the right amount of your assets allocated to stocks versus fixed-income investments. You feel comfortable with the growth/income and risk profile of your investment portfolio, and you have carefully diversified your assets over all the investment categories, and even within each category. Then, inevitably, the market jumps up or down, and your investment portfolio is thrown completely off balance. What should you do?


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   AAII Portfolio Returns
AAII Model Portfolios YTD (%) 1-Yr (%)
Mutual Fund Portfolio -6.1 -3.9
Shadow Stock Portfolio -10.2 -18.0
Data as of 8/31/2008
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