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Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Jan 30, 2012, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , ,

Three very different blogs make up this week’s post.

  • American Century – This post is long. If you give it a bit of time, you’ll be rewarded with an interesting argument for municipal bonds. The financial news has been pretty bearish on munis, so this is an interesting contrarian take.
  • Russell – This post organizes investor perceived organized by asset class; a unique idea.
  • Vanguard – This post isn’t very interesting. What is interesting is that CEO McNabb took over Vanguard’s Facebook and Twitter accounts for a good part of Monday.

 

Vanguard Making Use of Old Content

Posted by Mike McLaughlin on Oct 12, 2011, in Thoughts , tagged with , , ,

This is outstanding:

Vanguard references an article it first published in 2009.

The reason? Vanguard re-used a solid piece of content it initially produced almost two years ago.

In the constant battle to create more and more new content, firms too often forget that they’ve produced tons of great material in the past. Most of it is buried, never to see the light of day. Often this is because firms simply don’t have good organizational memory on what they’ve previously created.

But there is definitely ongoing value in certain less-than-new pieces. It’s good for clients and easy for the firm. Nice job here by Vanguard.

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Oct 11, 2011, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , , ,

Apologies for the one-day delay. The tremendous weekend weather (in New York) took precedence over this blog.  Though we’re not tracking precisely, the volume of industry blogs is increasing.  More firms are blogging and the firms with established blogs are increasing frequency. Both are encouraging.  This week’s best include three different topics – all highly relevant for advisors fielding calls.

  1. BlackRock – This post shares a few fresh perspectives on gold.  From previous research engagements, I know advisors sometimes get “benchmarked” against gold.  While totally unfair, you can hear an investor saying “why don’t I just invest in gold?”
  2. Russell – This post provides a succinct job of heading off conversations that compare the US economy with Japan’s economy and aging population.
  3. Vanguard – This post provides a succinct job of comparing current economic situations in the US and China.

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Sep 19, 2011, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , ,

This week we saw a lot of blogs, but primarily focused on very current events.  While those can be interesting, they can also be so specific as to become stale in two days.  Here we have three interesting premises, in three different blogs.

  1. Vanguard – This post provides a clear relation (and line of thinking) between the large sell-off last month and retirement.
  2. Russell – Great post on what advisors think retirees want and what retirees actually want.
  3. Wells Fargo – The always enjoyable Dr. Jacobsen uses this post to share his opinion on a US version of a value-added sales tax.

Best Blogs of the Week

Posted by Anu Heda on Aug 15, 2011, in Best Blogs of the Week , tagged with , ,

What a week?  To me, it seems like more than 7 days ago when the global markets reacted to Standard & Poor’s downgrade.  With that historic event, there was significant blogging.  That fact is significant – asset managers are able to ramp up volume and timely blog posts related to market conditions.  Even 1 year ago, that probably was not possible.

I have four excellent posts this week, with Vanguard taking two spots.  All relate to the downgrade and subsequent market volatility.

  1. Vanguard – This post provides a bit of long-term perspective (as expected from Vanguard).
  2. Vanguard – The post re-introduces shortfall risk at just the right time to consider that before listening to media pundits panic.
  3. BlackRock – A nice post, easy FA-to-client sharing, that discusses the week’s volatility and some historical perspective.
  4. Wells Fargo – Single best title of the week is “No, this is not 2008 all over again.”