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Market Insight from JP Morgan – 2nd Quarter 2013

Time for the latest installment of market insights from JP Morgan Asset Management’s quarterly market outlook.   Each quarter, you can find this little gem of a PDF on JP Morgan’s Asset management website; a downloadable “Guide to the Markets”. And … Continue reading

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Market Insight from JP Morgan – 1st Quarter 2013

A bit behind schedule (purely on my end), but here is the latest installment of  JP Morgan Asset Management’s quarterly market outlook. Each quarter, you can find this little gem of a PDF on JP Morgan’s Asset management website; a … Continue reading

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Market Insight from JP Morgan – 4th Quarter – 2012

October is here, which means it is time for the quarterly market outlook from JP Morgan Asset Management (hat tip to B. Ritholtz). Each quarter, you can find this little gem of a PDF on JP Morgan’s Asset management website; … Continue reading

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Safe Investing Principles In Action

A recent article for the Portfolioist (Asset Allocation: An Alternative View) is a great example of Safe Investing Principles in action. 6 – Continually measure the performance of your plan or system; there is always something that can be improved … Continue reading

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Bad News for Beta – Stock Correlations Soar

From the desk of Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge: …look at the correlations between the 10 industry sectors of the S&P 500. At 97.2% average correlation, U.S. stocks are moving in lock step to a degree we haven’t seen … Continue reading

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Why Low-Beta Strategies are Worth Another Look (via Portfolio Investing Blog: Portfolioist)

Just last month Geoff Considine wrote an article about why investors may want to explore low beta strategies in a  highly volatile market.  Here at the Portfolioist, we thought we’d re-post the article in reponse to this week’s  wild ride … Continue reading

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Best Asset Classes – July 2011 Edition

Source: July Recap… Fixed Income and Real Assets RollEconomPichttp://econompicdata.blogspot.com/2011/08/july-recap-fixed-income-and-real-assets.html

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