Category Archives for Investment Advice

Investors Should Think Twice Before Chasing the Biggest Stocks

1. Ten largest companies by market capitalization.2. Returns are measured as of start of first calendar year after a stock joins Top 10. As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading

Professor Kenneth French on Building Confidence as an Investor

How Has Market Behavior Evolved For Emerging Markets Investing?

Understanding market behavior and evolution are just as important for emerging markets as for developed markets, as emerging markets are an important part of a well-diversified global equity portfolio.

When It’s Value Stocks vs. Growth Stocks, History Is on Value’s Side

Recently, growth stocks have enjoyed a run of outperformance vs. their value counterparts. But while disappointing periods emerge from time to time, the principle that lower relative prices lead to higher

Professor Kenneth French explains some basic principles of building an investment portfolio.

Highlights: What History Tells Us About Elections and the Market

Investors often wonder whether the market will rise or fall based on who is elected president. Every presidential election cycle the news media gets their audiences all worked up about how the other party

Strategic vs. Tactical Asset Allocation: Does It Matter?

Strategic vs. tactical asset allocation … they both sound pretty good as an investment strategy, don’t they? There’s only one problem: I may have left you guessing as to what I’m even talking

Can Small Cap Stocks Weather the Storm?

With recession concerns intensifying in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors may be wondering whether small cap stocks are poised to struggle. Are small companies more vulnerable now than they

Choosing Between a Fee-Only or Fee-Based Advisor

in your search for a dependable financial advisor, you might assume fee-only advisor vs. fee-based advisor are one and the same. Unfortunately, fee-only and fee-based advisors are not interchangeable.