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Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Jul 24, 2013, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , , , ,

Best is going into summer mode, which means a post about the industry’s blogs every 7 – 10 days. Each posts will consider all industry blog posts since the last “Best Blogs of the Week.” With that said, we found an unprecedented five posts to share from a high-quality week-and-a-half.

  • AllianceBernstein – The author tackles inflation starting from no inflation for the long-term and then ends with a reasonable sector consideration.
  • BlackRock – We’ve been fortunate to speak with over fifty FAs in the last month. Recurring theme? A lot of question about valuing the US stock market. This post presents why the market may go higher.
  • Franklin Templeton – This post presents a succinct argument to consider European equities.
  • MFS – Jim provides 4 ways to digest earnings season, critical for any FA that does a lot of large-cap.
  • Vanguard – This post shares a fresh and short way to think about premium/discount and tracking error (in this case for International ETFs).

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Feb 11, 2013, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , , ,

Hopefully everyone (in the Northeast) is settling in with a fine coffee as you read this Monday morning. We have three high-quality posts from last week to share.

  • MFS – Swanson takes a contrary position regarding US corporate profits.
  • Putnam – Nice job providing correlations and (more importantly) implications.
  • Wells Farg0 – It doesn’t hurt to refresh understandings some times. And this post is a nice Q&A related to alternatives with a leading institutional alternatives manufacturer.

 

Improve Your Blog (5 of 5)

Posted by Anu Heda on Jan 15, 2013, in Thoughts , tagged with , ,

Titles sell blog posts. I’m impressed with how blog post titles have been improving in our industry. The most valuable blogs – ones that keep readers coming back frequently – include a good mix of titles.

Oversubscribed advisors, institutional investors and consultants appreciate titles such as:

  1. 3 Reasons to Consider Frontier Markets
  2. Tax predictions are hard – especially about the future…

Improve your blog with titles that (a) are short and (b)  provide incentive to read.

The first four installments in this series covered:

  1. Injecting personality
  2. Frequency
  3. Adding graphics
  4. Q&A

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Jan 14, 2013, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , , ,

So are we done with the fiscal cliff? Not totally it seems. But we can expect next week’s news to fill up with debt ceiling discussions. Joy! This week, four interesting posts that are easy to relate with and easy to share with clients.

  • BlackRock – This post provides three upcoming dates related to the fiscal cliff. Probably good for an FA to jot down.
  • Columbia – This post provides an actual stance on expected 2013 US GDP growth and implications from that growth.
  • MFS – Nice anecdote about real estate in London and the personal capital flight from around the world.
  • Russell – My favorite post; the first table shows the folly of prediction.

 

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.