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The Index Fund Advisors (IFA) app can help you replace speculation with an education. With hundreds of videos and articles you can learn about passive investment strategies, how much risk you can afford, when you can retire, and much more. Available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for Android. https://www.ifa.com/app/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #IFAApp #investmentapp

Stock markets around the world continued to rally in 2020's fourth quarter. As epidemiologists raced to bring out vaccines to fight the coronavirus, patient investors who stuck with their strategic IFA investment plans were rewarded. https://www.ifa.com/articles/2020_market_review_1/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #DFA #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

The year 2020 proved to be one of the most tumultuous in modern history, marked by a number of developments that were historically unprecedented. But the year also demonstrated the resilience of people, institutions, and financial markets. https://www.ifa.com//market_review_2020_looking_back_unpr/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #DFA #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

At its core, managing wealth is about finding the best solutions for your clients. As he mentions in today's discussion with him, this sentiment has guided David Booth's storied career. All videos are being provided for informational purposes only and should not be considered a solicitation, recommendation, or endorsement of any particular security, product or service, or considered to be investment or tax advice. There is no guarantee any investment strategies will be succes...sful. Investing involves risks, including possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future returns. No investment decisions should be made solely based on the information in any of these videos. The opinions referenced within are as of the date of each video recording and are subject to change without notice. Information provided by third party sources is not endorsed or guaranteed by IFA. Please be sure to use the pause button to fully read the important disclosures at the end of each video. https://www.ifa.com/artic/david-booth-the-first-index-fund/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #DFA #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #davidbooth #rrpodcast #rationalreminderpodcast

IFA provides our clients the most prudent advice that we can for each particular financial situation. Our planning process is designed to give IFA clients access to resources and tools to tackle a wide range of different financial issues. https://www.ifa.com//getting_your_comprehensive_financial/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

Economist, author and Princeton Professor of Economics Burton Malkiel, in his 1973 book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 10th edition), famously quipped, "A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by the experts." https://www.ifa.com/gallery/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

Some of the world's largest companies have dominated stock market returns in recent history. For the five years ending July 2020, an equal-weighted portfolio of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Tesla more than quadrupled in value, leaving a total market index fund investor in the dust. https://www.ifa.com/arti/large-cap-growth-stocks-ben-felix/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #DFA #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #largecap #growthstocks

A 'Back to Basics' Approach to Long-Term Inflation Risks Inflation might not take much of a bite out of your wallet today. But spiraling prices over longer periods can eat away at a portfolio's gains, in the process eroding your nest egg's value and undermining any efforts to reach a secure financial future. https://www.ifa.com//back_basics_approach_long-term_infla/... #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #inflation #inflationrisk

Investing In Gold Gold is often cited as having a negative correlation with stocks and a positive correlation with inflation, making it sound like an excellent diversifying asset to hold in portfolios. https://www.ifa.com/articles/investing-in-gold-felix/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #GOLD #investingGold

Reasons To Avoid Index Funds (ETFs) Stock picking and actively managed funds should be avoided like the plague. https://www.ifa.com/articles/reasons-to-avoid-index-funds/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #ETFs #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

The Nasty Aftereffects of Holding Too Much Cash In terms of safe havens to protect short-term savings, cash is king. If you're an investor, however, cash can turn into a real drag. https://www.ifa.com/articles/improve_your_economic_forecast/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #cash

An Exceptional Value Premium It's probably not news to most value investors that the value premium has struggled over the past decade. What might be news is just how extreme an outlier recent value stock underperformance represents. https://www.ifa.com/articles/exceptional_value_premium/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

SPIVA: 2020 Mid-Year Active vs. Passive Scorecard In good times as well as bad, active management has persisted to produce underwhelming results. Through June, more than 87% (87.2%) of all domestic stock fund managers had underperformed the broad S&P Composite 1500 Index since June 2005. https://www.ifa.com//despite_brief_reprieve_2018_spiva_re/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #SPIVA

Profitability: An Added Dimension of Value Investing Profitability is measured by the ratio of operating profitability minus interest expense to book value. In essence, this is a calculation to drill into a company's income statement, which shows differences between revenues, costs and expenses. https://www.ifa.com//direct_profitability_added_dimension/... #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #profitability

A top-heavy stock market with the largest 10 stocks accounting for over 20% of market capitalization and a marquee technology firm perched at No. 1? This sounds like a description of the current US stock market, dominated by Apple and the other FAANG stocks,1 but it is actually a reference to 1967, when IBM represented a larger portion of the market than Apple at the end of 2019 (5.8% vs. 4.1%). it is not particularly unusual for the market to be concentrated in a handful of ...stocks. The combined market capitalization weight of the 10 largest stocks, just over 20% at the end of last year, has been higher in the past. Source: Dimensional using data from CRSP and Compustat. Includes all U.S. common stocks. Largest stocks identified at the end of each calendar year by sorting stocks on market capitalization. CRSP and Compustat data provided by the Center for Research in Security Prices, University of Chicago. "This chart was republished here with permission of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. No further republication or redistribution is permitted without the consent of Dimensional Fund Advisors LP." https://www.ifa.com//large_charge_giant_firms_atop_market/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #DFA #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors

At IFA we have a collection of investment books dating back to 1720. One of the books in this collection is The Wolf of Wall Street. Many may not know it, but the Wolf of Wall Street was written and published on the eve of the stock market crash of 1929. https://www.ifa.com/book-library/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #wolfofwallstreet #wolfofwallstreetmovie

We put under our research microscope Prudential's family of active mutual funds. This analysis is part of our ongoing Deeper Look series, which investigates claims by managers of peer performance superiority by holding them to a higher standard -- i.e., how they've done over longer periods against their respective indexes. https://www.ifa.com//prudential_financial_deeper_look_per/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors #prudential #prudentialfinancial

How can stock prices flirt with new highs while the news is so discouraging? One financial columnist recently observed that the stock market "looks increasingly divorced from economic reality." Is it? https://www.ifa.com/art/stock_market_divorced_from_reality/ #IFA #investing #investors #indexfunds #stocks #stockmarket #finance #financialliteracy #mutualfunds #riskcapacity #wealthmanagement #financialplanning #financialplanner #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #indexfundadvisors