December 2, 2019: Newsletter Collection Update

Dec 3, 2019 | Asset-Allocation, Bonds, Economy, Feature, Gold, Headline, Income, Investments, IRA, Markets, Mutual-Funds, Newsletter, Retirement

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

Regular AAC (Asset Allocation Composite) portfolios are always rebalanced on the first trading day of a month. 

For regular SAA and TAA portfolios, the next re-balance will be on Monday, December 23, 2019. You can also find the re-balance calendar for 2019 on ‘Dashboard‘ page once you log in. Please note that we are phasing out this rebalance calendar. 

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.

Newsletter Collection Update

Latest update on 12/2/2019

Highlighted are the recent articles. 

The most recent significant updates are a series of articles on our new Asset Allocation Composite strategy based portfolios. As we are making efforts to improve the quality of our portfolios and ease of use, we ask readers to pay special attention to these articles. 

We have published numerous newsletters over the years and many 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. We highly encourage users to read these newsletters as understanding many issues and our methodology is an inherent part of using our service. In the following, we select and list some newsletters in each category.

Portfolio Management

Asset Allocation and Other Investment Strategies

Asset Allocation Composite:

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 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. 

Fund Review

Factor ETFs

General mutual funds and ETFs

Financial Planning & Retirement

Cash Management

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

US large cap stocks continued to break out of their previous highs. However, US mid cap (MDY), small cap stocks (IWM), developed country stocks (VEA) and emerging market stocks (VWO) have still not be able to surpass their previous highs made in last September or before: 

In general, this performance dispersion has existed for a long period of time. We thus can only be very cautious optimistic. Again, we believe rigorous risk management is warranted in these overvalued and over extended markets. 

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

In terms of investments, even after the recent retreat, U.S. stock valuation is still at a historically high level and a bigger correction is still waiting to happen. It is thus not a good time to take excessive risk. However, we remain optimistic about U.S. economy in the long term and believe much better investment opportunities will arise in the future. 

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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