How you answer these questions could
suggest different investment approaches ranging from a more aggressive strategy, using a greater percentage of equities and high - yield bonds, to a more conservative strategy, using a greater percentage of bonds than equities, or something in between.
Ned Davis found that
using different investment approaches to find growth stocks, value stocks, small cap stocks, international stocks, dividend stocks, etc. produced the best performance results, and my experience agrees with his findings.
It is helpful to recognize that there are cycles of investment fashion;
different investment approaches go into and out of favor, coincident with recent fluctuations in the results obtained by practitioners.
Even if a fund fares well relative to other funds with a similar style, it may be that the fund sparkled because it employed a
slightly different investment approach — and that approach goes out of favor.
Also, many investment consultants insist on classifying hedge funds as an asset class, even though hedge funds are just a legal structure that can contain any number of
very different investment approaches.
Vanguard, American and DFA were chosen as representatives for
the different investment approaches due to their popularity with investors and their long track records.
«Because our investment management groups work independently and adhere to
different investment approaches, Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series funds typically have distinct portfolios and can be used to build truly diversified allocation plans covering every major asset class.»
Franklin Templeton's funds can be used to build truly diversified portfolios because the Franklin Templeton investment management groups — Franklin, Templeton and Mutual Series — work independently, adhere to
different investment approaches and manage distinct portfolios.
I have a proposal for
a different investment approach... * considering only the «best» alternatives: «value decile» (best return potential) and cash (lowest volatility / drawdowns).
Tiger, you're my mentor and very wise but we have
different investment approaches.