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- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 05-12-2013 | US Stocks Ended the Week at Record Levels Again
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 05-05-2013 | US Stocks Rose to Record Highs
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 04-28-2013 | Global Markets Rallied for the Week
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 04-21-2013 | Global Stocks Ended Lower for the Week
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 04-07-2013 | S&P 500 Had Worse Week in 2013
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 03-31-2013 | S&P 500 Index Hit a Record High
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 03-24-2013 | US Stocks Ended the Week Lower and Emerging Markets Continued to Slump
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 03-17-2013 | US Stocks Ended the Week Higher While Emerging Markets Tumbled
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 03-10-2013 | Dow Jones Industrial Average Hit Record
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 03-03-2013 | US Stocks Moved Close to All-Time High
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-24-2013 | Emerging Market Stocks and Commodities Declined as Oil Prices Dropped
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-17-2013 | S&P 500 Index Rose the Seventh Week in a Row
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-10-2013 | S&P 500 Index Rose the Sixth Week in a Row
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-03-2013 | The US Equity Markets Scored the Best January Gains in 15 Years
- ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 01-27-2013 | Stocks Climbed Again Last Week
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Using TD Ameritrade Commission-Free ETFs for Implementation
A subscriber mentioned that TD Ameritrade offers 100 commission-free ETFs. See the link: http://research.tdameritrade.com/public/etfs/commissionfree/commissionfree.asp To save transaction costs, we can use some of the commission-free ETFs to replace the ETFs in our portfolios. There may be some differences in the performance … Continue reading
Posted in Investment Strategy
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ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-26-2012
Top Stories Last Week Greek Bailout The European finance ministers approved a new bailout of 130 billion euros to help Greece avoid default. Private lenders that hold Greek bonds, have agreed to take 53.5% loss on the face value, the … Continue reading
Posted in Portfolio Review
1,715 Comments
ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-19-2012
Top Stories Last Week Greek bailout On Sunday, the Greek Parliament voted in favor of the new austerity package in order to get a second bailout in the midst of the intense demonstrations on the street. European Finance ministers postponed … Continue reading
Posted in Portfolio Review
2,437 Comments
ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-12-2012
Top Stories Last Week Greek bailout Greek politicians could not agree on the new cutbacks on Friday. The approval of a second Greek bailout necessary to avoid a messy default will be delayed until next week. Stocks declined U.S.stocks closed out … Continue reading
Posted in Portfolio Review
2,470 Comments
All-Season Investment Strategy III: A Dynamic Multi Asset Investment Solution
“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.” – Sir John Templeton In Part I and Part II, I have introduced how to use two mechanisms, risk on/off switch … Continue reading
Posted in Investment Strategy
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Portfolios and Their Performance 01-2012
In January 2012, our dynamic models for Aggressive, Moderate, Conservative and Defensive portfolios gained 5.2%, 4.3%, 3.3% and 2.5%, respectively, outperforming their respective benchmarks by more than 1%. The over-weights in IWM, VWO, IYR contributed to the outperformance (See Table 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Portfolio Review
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ALL SEASON INVESTING WEEKLY 02-05-2012
Top Financial and Economic Stories Last Week Strong employment report US generated 243,000 jobs in January following a 203,000 increase in December. Unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%. Nearly 2 million jobs have been created in the past six months. The … Continue reading
Posted in Portfolio Review
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