Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: ETF & Mutual Fund Research & Monitoring
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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: ETF & Mutual Fund Research & Monitoring

For many investors, once they have made a decision to purchase an ETF or mutual fund, they tend to breathe a sigh of relief and move on. Although there needs to be significant upfront due diligence in selecting investments, we do not recommend blindly trusting that the managers remain consistent, nor that the specific investments continue to fit into your portfolio. One important ongoing aspect of investment management is to ensure the investment vehicles recommended remain as high conviction as when we first recommended them.

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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: Taxes & Asset Location
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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: Taxes & Asset Location

Often overlooked when thinking about your portfolio are the different ways that taxes are generated, based upon the type of accounts that own various asset classes. According to the “Vanguard Advisor’s Alpha” framework study from August 12, 2022, just by optimizing the location that different asset classes are held can add up to 0.60% annually in higher after-tax returns for investors!

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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: Rebalancing
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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: Rebalancing

We are starting a new series of blog posts looking behind the scenes of how we manage portfolios for our ongoing clients. Many of these things have been discussed in various levels of detail in the past, but we wanted to give you a full picture of what happens on an ongoing basis. Let’s begin discussing “Rebalancing”…

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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: How We Choose Investment Vehicles
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Behind the Scenes of Your Portfolio: How We Choose Investment Vehicles

There are many different opinions on the best way to build out an investment portfolio. As you may be aware, we have partnered with Fiducient Advisors to deepen our investment research capabilities since early 2022. We work directly with our team of over 40 analysts at Fiducient to research asset allocation decisions and the best way to structure the portfolio. This is especially valuable as the investment markets and the world generally seem to change at a much faster pace than before.

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Bonds May Be Riskier than Stocks
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Bonds May Be Riskier than Stocks

One of the staple investment beliefs has historically been that “bonds are for protection and stocks are for growth”. While the evidence has generally backed this up, it is important that we balance what worked before with the current and future investment environment. As every investment compliance attorney has said, “past performance is no guarantee of future results”.

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