International (developed country) stocks saw their returns bounce back in a big way last year. The asset class soared 35.2% in 2025, its largest return in at least 19 years. Emerging markets stocks ...

Some asset classes routinely outperformed US stocks during the steepest drawdowns, but the winners list changes through time. Cash (or its equivalent) is the only asset class that routinely ...

US stocks topped returns for the major asset classes in October, regaining the leadership position for the first time in five months, based on a set of ETFs. For year-to-date results, foreign stocks ...

Americans are often told to “invest for the long term,” but what exactly does that mean? Long-term investing is about focusing on goals that are still far off and ignoring short-term market gyrations ...

Reprinted from the Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 1992, pp. 7-19. This copyrighted material has been reprinted with permission from The Journal of Portfolio Management. It is widely agreed ...

Explore how risk parity portfolios equitably allocate risk using leverage across asset classes, balancing performance and ...

An asset allocation fund diversifies investment portfolios across multiple asset classes like stocks, bonds, and cash. Learn ...

Due to endowments and foundations aggressive return objectives, they often are significantly exposed to equity market volatility. Endowments and foundations (E&Fs) may wish to mitigate portfolio ...

I recently wrote about how fund investors’ stake in US equity has drifted higher over the past decade. That increase owes mostly to US stocks’ standout returns over that period, rather than investors’ ...

Wealth managers are eager to deploy model portfolios in their client accounts, thanks to models’ ready availability, transactional convenience, and the increasingly broad array of model offerings.

Markets never move in straight lines. No investor can predict the direction of the next cycle. There are periods of strong gains and high confidence, followed by times when bond yields rise, inflation ...