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Strategic Asset Allocation: A Starting Point For Portfolio Construction

December 29, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Much is made of the importance of asset allocation here at ITA Wealth Management.  Long-time readers are familiar with the general layout of the portfolios and new readers will find more information by doing a search for “Dashboard.”  Not all portfolios tracked on this blog use the seventeen asset allocation

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Portfolio Construction Tagged With: Portfolio Construction

Excellent Music from All Classical in Portland, Oregon

December 24, 2013 By Lowell Herr

If you wish to listen to excellent music for a few more days, bring up this URL on your computer or SONOS system. http://www.allclassical.org  and click on Listen.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Music

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Counterpoint Christmas Music

December 22, 2013 By Lowell Herr

One of my favorite Christmas CDs is Counterpoint: Christmas in Vermont.  I was surprised to find only one review on Amazon, but this reviewer matches my opinion of the recording. “Counterpoint is a twelve-member choral group based in Vermont, directed by Robert De Cormier, who had a long and

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: CD Recommendations, Music

Why Use Index Funds?

December 12, 2013 By Lowell Herr

The Power of Index Investing Why are 80% to 85% of all investors wrong?  Could it be the power of advertising and greed?  What do I mean when I say a high percentage of investors have it all wrong?  Simple!  The majority of investors

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material Tagged With: Beginning Invesors, Index Investing

Why I Use ETFs Instead of Individual Stocks

November 21, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Approximately 80% of all investors use individual stocks to populate their portfolios.  So why buck the majority trend and use index ETFs?  That is a reasonable question that merits an answer.  In fact, several answers.  Confession:  I do select a few individual stocks for

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material Tagged With: Beginning Investors

Music Recommendations for 10 November 2013

November 10, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Two music suggestions are coming your way this week as not everyone will enjoy the jazz recommendation.  Recently recommended to me was “The Complete Django Reinhard and Quintet of the Hot Club of France.”  Classic Early Recordings is the closest I could come to the collection I was able to

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Music Recommendations

Retirement Planning Mistake #10

November 4, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Investors do not monitor their portfolio adequately. Rare is the investor who can place their hands on the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of their portfolio. An even smaller percentage of investors know how well their portfolio is performing with respect to an appropriate benchmark. The

Filed Under: Critical Material, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning Mistake #8

November 2, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Over confident and lacks patience. Over confidence and lack of patience manifests itself in a number of ways. If you think you can beat the market by picking individual stocks, be very careful.  If you want to test your skills, set up two portfolios.  Use a passive approach with one

Filed Under: Retirement Planning Tagged With: Retirement Planning

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