These charts demonstrate how asset allocation affects the range of expected returns.

The Concept of Time Diversification

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Asset allocation -- the mix of cash, bonds and stocks in a portfolio -- determines the spectrum of returns you will experience. Here's a great insight from Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard...

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The Fidelity Investments business that manages money designated by clients for charitable giving said assets grew to $14.6 billion last year, a 21 percent increase over 2013.

This interview with Dan Fuss, who has managed Loomis Bond Institutional to a 9.7% annual return since opening it 24 years ago, appeared in Forbes, May 25, 2015 issue.

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO), recently announced that it will be adding small cap stocks and China A-shares to its $67 billion emerging markets index fund to bring additional diversification...

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Einstein called compounding the most powerful force in the universe. Find out why starting now is a good idea!

The value added through efficient tax management of investments.

Our time tested keys to investment success.

Updated figures on the cost of a college education.

This article from Sunday’s New York Times updates data we've reported in the past about the Performance Gap suffered by the average mutual fund investor.

These are notes from The Intelligent Investor, one of the most important books ever written about investing. Written by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor and professor at Columbia, it provides the margin of safety concept as well as the intellectual framework for many of our investment strategies. It outlines how one should think about the relationship between price/valuation and returns, as well as our approach to managing portfolios through market fluctuations. The chapter, The Investor and Market Fluctuations, should be considered required reading.

William Bernstein applies Ben Graham's concepts to the subject of asset allocation -- the key to risk management and long-term investment success.

The Road Less Travelled

Robert Frost’s famous poem, while not written with financial markets in mind, is nevertheless one for investors to consider. It is particularly relevant when investing in markets that are demonstrating strong trends that appear to have no end in sight. Eventually money will cycle around to the "road less travelled."

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Too often the industry avoids talking about one of the most important aspects of maximizing your long-term investment results: minimizing taxes.

 A Vanguard employee was sitting down to dinner with her family when her 10-year-old son Ryan said, “I wonder when I’m going to be able to pay off my mortgage.” ...