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Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Dec 03, 2012, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , ,

While the industry’s blogs continue to load up on fiscal cliff, this week’s best includes only a single reference.

  • AllianceBernstein – Seth Masters directs this post directly to endowments and foundations. Selecting an institutional sub-segment is highly rare and this post is straightforward and effective.
  • BlackRock – This post shares important dates in December relative to the fiscal cliff.
  • Columbia – Via a very simple infographic, this post describes the difficulty in timing the market and why the end investor’s consideration might be more effectively categorized via risk. It’s a solid post for any FA to share with a client when asked the question (and it’s asked often): should we get back into equities now?

 

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Nov 12, 2012, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with ,

With the election complete, content can focus on more varied topics than who will be President and what that means for advisors. We have our first 2013 prognostication and other posts.

  • BlackRock -Thinking about asset allocation in 2013? This post gives two scenarios to consider.
  • Oppenheimer – The first post-election post was also the most interesting and specific.

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Nov 06, 2012, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , ,

Congratulations! You made it to the end of the political season.

Three posts this week, two regarding the fiscal cliff.

  1.  BlackRock – Nice infographic on the fiscal cliff (ending with a product sell).
  2. Pioneer – This is the single best fiscal cliff blog post. Nothing to say except: READ.
  3. Russell – Fantastic idea – look at World Series results to predict the S&P.

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Oct 16, 2012, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , , ,

As no surprise, we’ll see many more political blog posts throughout October. We’ll share them sparingly and this week there are none!

  • BlackRock – This post addresses a hot question: do advisors really use social media?
  • MFS – This post answers the important question: why are all these really massive companies holding so much cash on their balance sheets?
  • Pioneer – This short post recaps quickly survey data all over the Internet and with a thundering parenthetical at the end.
  • Russell – This post discusses a topic rarely covered: the investor with 2 or more FAs.