Investing

In the December Journal of Financial Planning, Michael Kitces, Sauro Locatelli, and I published a study entitled, “Improving Risk-Adjusted Returns Using Tactical Asset Allocation Strategies.” The title is a mouthful, but we were basically asking if changing the asset allocation of a portfolio can increase your returns relative to the amount of risk that you take, compared to just buying [...]

Readers who visit the Pinnacle Advisory Group website (www.pinnacleadvisory.com) will note that a paper by Solow, Kitces, and Locatelli, entitled “Improving Risk Adjusted Returns Using Market-Valuation-Based Tactical Asset Allocation Strategies,” was published in the December issue of the Journal of Financial Planning (JFP) – the most distinguished journal in the profession. The paper itself is a technical study that may [...]

Recently U.S. data has taken a more positive tone as international data continues to get softer. Thursday’s U.S. data brought a very strong number on jobless claims, along with two regional manufacturing surveys that were better than expected. Industrial production numbers were weak, but on balance more data beat estimates than missed, and that’s been the pattern for the last [...]

Today, we initiated an investment into home builders. The purchase was made for only our most aggressive clients and was a relative move from the telecom sector. This industry has long been dead money, but we felt this was a good opportunity to initiate a purchase for a few reasons. The relative strength (measuring one asset class against another) of [...]

I was recently quoted in a Diana Britton article in Registered Rep. magazine entitled, “Is Tactical Investing Wall Street’s Next Clown Act?” As you might guess from the unfortunate title, the writer trots out the familiar and tired arguments for buy and hold investing. In a nutshell, you should buy and hold because: 1. There is no theoretical basis for doing [...]