Not exact matches
Commodities as an
asset class rose from relative obscurity to become a popular addition to portfolios
by the more innovative
asset allocators in the last 10 - 15 years...
Most other funds seem to be managed
by «top - down»
asset allocators who bring little, or no, knowledge to the nitty - gritty details that affect the companies and securities in which the typical fund has invested.
«The Intelligent
Asset Allocator»
by W. Berstein is a good read if you're so inclined.
Furthermore, these academic views, which are discussed at some length below, seem to have been adopted virtually in their entirety
by most money managers, including the managers of most mutual funds, especially those who are non-fundamental, top - down
asset allocators.
While the market surged 734 % over the entire period, and the average equity fund moved
by 589 %, the
asset allocators increased only 384 %, about half the gain of the averages (all figures are dividend adjusted).
The Claymore Investment website has a nifty
asset allocator tool that lets investors construct model portfolios
by mixing different
asset classes and examine how they would have performed in the past.
The report produced
by the Claymore
asset allocator also contains a very useful table of correlation between various
asset classes.
by Fred Schwed «The Money Game»
by Adam Smith «Against the Gods»
by Peter L. Bernstein «The Four Pillars of Investing»
by William Bernstein «The Intelligent
Asset Allocator «
by William Bernstein «Personal Finance for Dummies»
by Eric Tyson «Fooled
by Randomness»
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb «The Richest Man in Babylon «
by George Clason
Allows Inputting of Investment
Assets Using the «Bucket Approach» (used by asset allocators and retirement planners that want to model scenarios like depleting non-qualified assets before tapping into qualified a
Assets Using the «Bucket Approach» (used
by asset allocators and retirement planners that want to model scenarios like depleting non-qualified
assets before tapping into qualified a
assets before tapping into qualified
assetsassets)
Again using William Bernstein as an example, he makes some key conclusions (paraphrased
by me) in the «Intelligent
Asset Allocator»: