For quite some time now financial advisers of all stripes have been in search of the elusive “all-weather portfolio.”  That is, an asset allocation that serves to protect investors in b...

One of the tenets of modern portfolio management most damaged due to the financial crisis has been asset allocation.  We have discussed how during a bear market correlations tend to one, the myth o...

We having been writing a fair amount on the topic of asset allocation of late.  In our Sunday linkfest we noted two pieces on asset allocation (Aleph Blog & Barron’s) that discuss the ben...

Alternatives to mutual funds continue to flood the marketplace.  ETFs have grown into an industry unto itself with some $700 billion in assets under management.  Now on a more micro-scale, servi...

We have been in the midst of a debate as to the benefits (or not) of a buy-and-hold investment methodology.  Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture highlights some recent research showing that some port...