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Updated September 9, 2009 Selecting an asset allocation means you are putting your risk profile to work in a way that balances the risk and reward in your overall portfolio. It is also the factor that contributes the most to a portfolio's return. Read that again. It is also the factor that contributes the most to a portfolio's return. To illustrate this, think of investing like a funnel: Click to Enlarge This funnel is derived from research presented by Ken Fisher in his book, The …

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Risk is a crazy thing. Take on too much and you either crash and burn or you make out like a bandit. Take on too little and you either just float along or you make out like a bandit. The "trick" is figuring out how that happy medium that you will be comfortable with. I have spent some time determining what my risk profile is. For a definition of the most common risk profiles, see this post here. There are a lot of tools on the web to help determine risk profiles, but the one that I …

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Updated January 26, 2009 In early December of 2007, I wrote a post about how I would invest if I were just starting out. In that post I provided my thoughts on how any beginner investor should start building a portolfio of stocks. I then realized that although I talk about my approach to investing on this blog, I have never have provided a linear and complete view of my overall process. Thus, I am kicking that off today. Today begins a series of posts that will build into complete insight into …

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The last couple of posts in The Dividend Key series have covered high dividend stocks and the fact that they have been better market performers than low yield stocks. However, it has not been simply buying all the high dividend stocks that has been the most powerful. A study conducted by Credit Suisse Quantitative Equity Research looked at high yields and payout ratios. Their study found that it is high yields coupled with low payout ratios that have provided the best gains over lower yield …

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On Thursday the post in The Dividend Key series talked about High Dividend Stocks and how they performed better than low dividend stocks. One thing I mentioned in that article was how the highest dividend stocks produced better returns with less risk. There is another study on dividends that talks more in depth about this risk / reward relationship. The study conducted by Lehman Brothers went back to 1970 and saw that the top-quintile of high dividend stocks produced a higher return with less …

Continue Reading about Day 4: The Dividend Key – High Dividend Stocks and the Risk and Reward Balance