Safety First: Protected Investment Products

• Managing Risk With Equity Indexed Annuity (EIA)Contracts
• EIA Provisions and Regulatory Environment
• Evaluating EIA Performance
• Who Should Buy EIAs?

ETFs, Liquidity, and Best Execution

• Retail vs. Institutional trading
• Pricing and the effects of order volume
• Best Execution: a Process not an Outcome

ETFs: A Critical Review of a Popular New Investment Product

• Index Mutual Funds vs. ETFs
• Legal Structures and Investor Protections
• Tax Management: Opportunities and Pitfalls

• The larger an actively managed fund, the less likely it is to earn alpha. Why?
• Is there an optimal size for actively managed funds?
• How should fund size affect a decision whether to buy or sell an active fund?

Why should you diversify?

• To minimize large losses,
• To manage unsystematic or company specific risk, and
• To reduce the drag on wealth accumulation of Variance Drain.

• What investors should know about Investment Adviser compliance.
• What is a Registered Investment Adviser, anyway; and, are stockbrokers RIAs?
• SCLC Compliance Policies.

• The “Success Ratio:” a new fund metric from Morningstar
• Show Me the Money: How to Invest Like a Wharton MBA
• Going Over the Hedge

• Asset Location Debate: Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Accounts
• Research on Taxable Alpha
• Surprising insight from the academics

• Portfolio Design and Taxes.
• Tax Managed Mutual Funds, do they work?
• Turnover, Active Management and the Effect on Taxes.

• Separately Managed Account (SMA): six misconceptions clarified
• Dollar Cost Averaging: a sub-optimal approach
• Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): facts and factoids