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Q2 2013 Global Asset Allocation Perspective: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The market’s recent rally feels good after the lows of the Great Recession and volatility associated with the sovereign debt crisis. But with stocks at record highs, investor uncertainty is also...

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How to React to Market Corrections? Check Your Emotions

No one likes to lose money. But some investors get caught up in market events and make rash decisions, which could end up costing them money. Market corrections usually tempt investors to sell, but if...

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Chart of the Week: What Is Sequence of Returns, and Why Does It Matter?

How can two portfolios with identical average annual returns have vastly different ending values? The answer is that the portfolios’ individual returns each year varied. That is, they experienced a...

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Chart of the Week: Battle of the Sexes: Investment Decisions

According to a recent survey by Lincoln Financial Group, hope and fear may influence women investors more than men, and hard facts and previous experience influence men more than their female...

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Chart of the Week: Quality Over Quantity – The Key to Diversification

When you create a diversified portfolio, you want a broad group of stocks, bonds, and cash, with the mix determined by your goals and time frame. But the number of investments represented in the...

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Ask Our Expert: Target-Date Fundamentals (Part I)

Q: How can target-date funds help investors in retirement? A: Target-date funds are a comprehensive investment strategy that aims to help investors achieve important long-term goals like retirement....

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Ask Our Expert: Target-Date Fundamentals (Part II)

Q: What should investors consider when evaluating target-date funds? A: Investors should review three key differentiating factors when evaluating target date funds: Glide path—Refers simply to the...

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Ask Our Expert: What Are the Benefits of Global Allocation?

Q: What role can global allocation play in a portfolio? A: First and foremost, because of the breadth of diversification, a global allocation portfolio could represent a core holding in virtually any...

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Q4 2013 Global Asset Allocation Perspective: Evaluating Stocks at Record Highs

Monetary and fiscal policy uncertainty may create volatility, but we don’t see those factors undermining the overall positive story for global equities and investment opportunities. Rather, in much of...

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CIO Insights: Diversification, Diversification, What’s Your Function?

As a firm, we believe strongly that investors would do well to adhere to a disciplined, diversified, long-term investment approach. The year to date has provided a good reminder of why this is...

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Today’s Markets Call for Balance Over Knee-Jerk Reactions

Crises in the Ukraine and Middle East remind us that catastrophes (whether natural or man-made) do occur from time to time. While recognizing their profound human import, such events typically have...

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CIO Insights: Two-Speed Recovery Puts Premium on Diversification

Increasing global economic and capital market integration has helped to align developed nations’ economic cycles over the last several decades. However, this global synchronization has unraveled to...

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CIO Insights: No Crystal Ball? Try Diversification

One of our favorite quotes is by the Nobel laureate Nils Bohr, who remarked that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” With a likely increase in financial market...

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Q2 2015 Global Asset Allocation Perspective: Global Opportunities, Global...

The biggest change to our positioning is a shift toward European stocks, which have underperformed relative to U.S. equities and offer more attractive valuations. Central bank policy, a weaker euro,...

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Q3 2015 Global Asset Allocation Perspective: Greece, China, and Interest Rates

There are three major clouds on the financial horizon: Greece, China, and U.S. monetary policy. Of the three, the ramifications of higher U.S. interest rates and further weakness in the Chinese...

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CIO Insights: Reassessing, Not Avoiding, Portfolio Risk

Market conditions are changing—the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is setting the course for normalized rates, questions surround global growth, and valuations are no longer compelling in any market....

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Dashing to Cash for Safety? Consider This Approach

Has recent market news has got you rattled? In response to jumpy markets, investors often consider a move to money markets or related cash investments. However, if you’re investing for a long-term...

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CIO Insights: Using Volatility as a Diversifier

In recent editions of CIO Insights, we’ve written about the return of risk to financial markets and the implications for individual investors. This time, we want to talk about how we hedge portfolio...

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