Re-balance Cycle Reminder All MyPlanIQ’s newsletters are archived here.

For regular SAA and TAA portfolios, the next re-balance will be on Monday, August 31, 2015. You can also find the re-balance calendar for 2014 on ‘Dashboard‘ page once you log in.

As a reminder to expert users: advanced portfolios are still re-balanced based on their original re-balance schedules and they are not the same as those used in Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation (SAA and TAA) portfolios of a plan.

Please note that we now list the next re-balance date on every portfolio page.

From time to time, we update our newsletter collection. It classifies newsletters into several categories. It is a helpful reference for many existing users. We also strongly encouraged new users to browse through these newsletters. It can be found by clicking on Articles tab and then Newsletters. Then on the articles page, click on ‘Newsletters’ tab on the far right to reveal the link. 

Newsletter Collections

Latest update: 8/10/2015

Several readers have asked us to categorize and summarize our previous newsletters as they tend to cover various topics. We believe this is a good idea as many of them provide useful information that can be useful for both new and old users. In the following, we select and list some newsletters in each category

Portfolio Management

Asset Allocation and Other Investment Strategies

Strategic: 

Tactical

Asset Behavior

Strategic and Timing

Fund Selection

Core Satellite and Multiple Strategies

Momentum Strategies and their behavior. How various asset allocation strategies work in different market cycles

Strategy and Portfolio Evaluation
Risk Parity, Four Pillar and Permanent Portfolios

More newsletters can be found in these two articles:

Portfolio Rebalance & Daily Management
Risk Management & Investor Behavior

Portfolio risk management techniques and issues. 

Investment Philosophy
Fixed Income, Dividend, Total Return Bond Funds & Conservative Allocation

The following newsletters address many concerns for retiree, conservative and income investors. 

Financial Planning & Retirement

Features & System Q&As

These newsletters address new features and how to for our system usage. 

Existing Portfolio Performance Reviews

In general, we review various portfolio performance in each newsletter. However, you can get latest up to date  performance result and comparison by clicking on links below portfolio comparison tables listed in our quarterly or annual review newsletters: 

Portfolios suggested by advisors and brokerages

Market Overview

Markets continue their holding pattern: risk assets again came back in favor. Furthermore, devaluation chatter is again surfacing, thus making yield sensitive assets such as long term bonds more stable. As stated in the previous newsletter, current trends are in some fluctuating tight range. We will just have to follow them based on our pre-formulated plans. 

For more detailed asset trend scores, please refer to 360° Market Overview

We would like to remind our readers that markets are more precarious now than other times in the last 5 years. It is a good time and imperative to adjust to a risk level you are comfortable with right now.  However, recognizing our deficiency to predict the markets, we will stay on course. 

We again copy our position statements (from previous newsletters): 

Our position has not changed: We still maintain our cautious attitude to the recent stock market strength. Again, we have not seen any meaningful or substantial structural change in the U.S., European and emerging market economies. However, we will let markets sort this out and will try to take advantage over its irrational behavior if it is possible. 

We again would like to stress for any new investor and new money, the best way to step into this kind of markets is through dollar cost average (DCA), i.e. invest and/or follow a model portfolio in several phases (such as 2 or 3 months) instead of the whole sum at one shot. 

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