Aricles: Buy & Hold


Evaluating new investment products
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April 27, 2011

We are always looking for ways to better design client investment portfolios. Every year, we are bombarded with new investment approaches, new products and new trading strategies to beat the market. Most new products can be tossed aside immediately, but a few require more detailed investigation.

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The Ultimate Buy-and-Hold Strategy - 2011 Update
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April 04, 2011

Editor's Note: This article first appeared at Merriman.com in February, and was recently featured in our email newsletter. To get the latest educational articles, please visit the Merriman Blog or subscribe to our newsletter

If you are a serious investor, this article could be one of the most important things you’ll ever read. I’m going to show you the strategy that’s very close, though not quite identical, to the way we manage the majority of the money we invest for our clients.

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Fine Tuning Your Asset Allocation - 2011 Update
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March 07, 2011

Editor's Note: This article first appeared at Merriman.com in February, and was recently featured in our email newsletter. To get the latest educational articles, please visit the Merriman Blog or subscribe to our newsletter

Perhaps the biggest job that any investor has is managing risk. If you take too much, you could be flirting with disaster; if you take too little, you could cheat yourself out of the returns you need to take care of yourself, your family and your heirs. In this article, updated to include results from 2010, Paul Merriman shows how to get this important equation right.

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Why don’t the experts beat the market? Mark Hulbert weighs in
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April 13, 2010

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Wall Street is filled with highly paid and highly educated workaholics focused on beating the market. Many of them publish newsletters with specific advice, but more often than not, that advice doesn’t do the job. Why? 

Ten important thoughts about buy-and-hold investing
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March 23, 2010

Lots of people talk about buying and holding as the best investment approach. But not all of them practice buying and holding as I see it. Here are some thoughts I shared recently with listeners on a Sound Investing podcast. For convenience, I’ve organized this as a list of 10 ideas, but many of them affect each other, and sometimes one blends into another.

History holds hope
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October 14, 2009

As investors were suffering huge losses last year and the first few months of this year, many of them despaired that good times would ever return. We never doubted that the market would come back, but we had (and still have) no way to know what a full recovery might look like or how long it might last. However, the history of the U.S. stock market is at least somewhat encouraging.

Inflation: Will your investments protect you?
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May 21, 2009
While inflation is currently quite low, there is concern about the potential for future higher inflation, due to the recent massive injections of liquidity into the financial system, and the huge ongoing federal government deficits.  

Federal Reserve officials would like to see annual inflation around 2 percent over the long run. Whether they could achieve this goal, even with all the tools at their disposal, remains to be seen.

Fine Tuning Your Asset Allocation - 2010 Update
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March 02, 2010

The article is now available at Merriman.com

What investors should do now
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December 23, 2008
I’m writing this piece just before Christmas 2008, toward the end of a year that most investors wish had never happened. And while this topic is timely, I believe my points will be just as valid in the future as they are now.

Our Lazy Portfolio (as written about at MarketWatch.com)
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October 22, 2008

When is being lazy good? Ask MarketWatch columnist Paul Farrell.  Here are his portfolio suggestions, and how our portfolio stacks up against other buy and hold or "lazy" portfolios.

Lazy Portfolio Update

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