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For the investors who are familiar with the known dimensions of expected return (size, relative-price, profitability, etc.), chances are that you have decided to tilt your portfolio accordingly. IFA’s 100 Index Portfolio also tilt our asset allocation towards small cap and value stocks. A common misconception amongst professionals and investorsRead More

Near the very top of everyone’s financial planning list of questions is, “when can I afford to retire?” What may seem like a very straightforward question does not have such a straightforward answer. The value an independent fiduciary wealth advisor brings to their clients is context when attempting to answerRead More

Boston based asset manager, Loomis Sayles, has been around since just before the Great Depression. As of March 31, 2017, they manage close to $250 billion in assets under management across 10 mutual fund strategies, institutional separate accounts, collective trusts, and hedge funds. As is typical with most large moneyRead More

Harvard Business School graduate Jerome L. Dodson founded San Francisco-based Parnassus Investments in 1984. Launching their first investment strategy in 1984, the Parnassus Fund (PARNX), with an eye towards responsible investing, one of the distinguishing characteristics of Parnassus Investments is their vision of expanding socially responsible investing (SRI) around theRead More

As we have pointed out on many occasions, both stock picking and hiring an active manager to pick stocks on your behalf are mug’s games. While some investors diligently study individual stocks and other investors handsomely pay active managers to deliver alpha (an additional return above and beyond what canRead More