06/22/08 — Why Emerging Markets Are So Volatile

06/21/08 — World Market Weighting Your Equity Allocation

06/20/08 — Changing Country Mix in World Market-Cap

06/18/08 — Islamic Funds Avoid the Financial Meltdown

06/17/08 — India & China Energy Consumption

06/15/08 — Commodity Funds Performance YTD (June 2008)

06/15/08 — Log & Arithmetic Charts Tell Different Stories

06/12/08 — Safety Zone Hard to Find

06/07/08 — Large Bank Index Forward Yield Pays You to Wait

06/05/08 — World ex-US Real Estate ETFs

06/04/08 — Investing Under a New Tax Regime

06/04/08 — Compare Commodity ETFs/Etns

05/30/08 — Avoiding Wash Sale Rule with Alternate Accounts

05/24/08 — Banks: Systematic & Non-Systematic Risk

05/21/08 — Tax Loss Harvesting and Standby Substitutes

05/21/08 — REITs Outperform Stocks & Direct Real Estate

05/19/08 — Market Shares of Leading ETF Sponsors

05/17/08 — Some Basic Suitability Issues in Portfolio Design

05/17/08 — US Stocks: Market-Cap & Style, 1997-2007

05/16/08 — Calendar Year Country Fund Returns, 1997-2007+

05/16/08 — Calendar Year Index Returns: 1997-2007+

05/15/08 — Screened ETF List

05/13/08 — Risk Adjusted Retuns, a Visual Approach

05/09/08 — Investing Banks - KBW Large Bank Index

05/08/08 — Black Swan in Food

05/07/08 — Asset Allocation as a Risk Management Method

05/05/08 — Importance of Major Asset Class Volatility Ranges

05/03/08 — Major Asset Class 1,3,5,10 and 15 Year Returns

04/30/08 — Historical Private and Public Real Estate Prices

04/27/08 — Geography of non-US Markets

04/26/08 — Practical Issues Calculating Portfolio Return

04/23/08 — REIT-Treasury Yield Spreads (1971 to-date)

04/18/08 — Managing Sector Funds in Portfolio Design

04/17/08 — Build Your Own Socially Screened Portfolio

04/16/08 — Worldwide Mutual Fund Assets

04/14/08 — Investment Theme Dimensions

04/13/08 — Wages of Ownership — the Retirement Years

04/08/08 — WaMu - Shareholders Still Come Last

04/05/08 — Country Bets Are Also Sector Bets .. and more

04/01/08 — No Home Sales Liquidity Problem in Connecticut

03/31/08 — Frontier Markets Lead the Pack YTD

03/31/08 — Equity Asset Class Relative Returns

03/30/08 — Not All Good, Not All Bad

03/29/08 — Global Opportunity Shift

03/26/08 — U.S Long-Term Double Top?

03/26/08 — Invest Globally, Not Just Locally

03/22/08 — Dollar Plight

03/20/08 — Current Treasuries Market Conditions

03/17/08 — Bank Intangible Assets

03/17/08 — Financial Sub-Sector Relative Performance

03/17/08 — The Cupboard is Bear

03/15/08 — Bear-ly Surviving

03/14/08 — Bear Stearns — To Big to Fall?

03/10/08 — Investing Around the Troubled Dollar

03/05/08 — Reiterate SELL Washington Mutual

03/04/08 — Problems with Charting

03/04/08 — An Ebbing Tide Lowers All Boats

03/03/08 — From Importing Deflation to Importing Inflation

03/02/08 — Leading and Lagging Industries

02/25/08 — Intellectual Capital by Country

02/23/08 — Is BRIC Broke?

02/23/08 — Sell Russia

02/18/08 — History of Emerging Markets vs US and World

02/18/08 — YTD Performance of Market Regions vs World

02/17/08 — Middle East & Brazil Among the Best YTD

02/12/08 — Country Risks

02/11/08 — Asset Allocation Scenarios

02/04/08 — Investment Advice from Saint Francis of Assisi

01/28/08 — Choosing Funds: Look Beyond the Name

01/28/08 — A Client With Her Head Screwed on Right

01/28/08 — It’s Ugly Out There

01/22/08 — Global Bear Market

01/17/08 — Race to the Bottom

01/16/08 — Some Days It Isn’t Worth Getting Out of Bed

01/07/08 — Relative Valuation - Major Stock Categories

12/28/07 — Chindia Isn’t

12/23/07 — Oil Price Predictions and Break-Even Prices

12/18/07 — Largest Frontier Market Companies

12/18/07 — Frontier Markets Investment

12/13/07 — Asset Allocation Survey (U.S. based investors)

11/23/07 — Large Banks – Sell the Worst, Wait on the Best

11/25/07 — Executive Privilege at WaMu!

11/23/07 — Fair Value - Important But Elusive

11/20/07 — ETFs Are an Important Force in the Market

10/30/07 — U.S. Housing Futures Bleak

10/22/07 — You Have Currency Risk - Like It or Not

09/30/07 — New China Property Law Makes Big Changes for the Better

09/29/07 — Asian REIT Yields Are More Reasonable

09/24/07 — Ranking Country Funds by Trade-to-GDP Ratio

09/19/07 — REITs Yield Too Little - Top REITs by Type

09/19/07 — Current versus Historical Yield Curve

09/18/07 — It’s not how much you earn - it’s how much you keep.

09/17/07 — More Ominous Global Credit Market Signs

09/16/07 — Equity REITs Still Significantly Overvalued Based On Price Return to Yield Return.

09/13/07 — S&P 500 Sector Comparisons

09/08/07 — U.S. Co’s Less Than 1/2 of World’s 100 Largest

09/05/07 — 80 Year History: Earnings Yld vs Interest Rates

09/03/07 — 80 Year History: Div Yld vs Interest Rates

08/31/07 — Life Cycle Asset Allocation

08/31/07 — Typical U.S. Household Asset Allocation

08/30/07 — Watch the Path Ahead, Not Your Feet

08/29/07 — Democratic Approach to Terror-Free Investing

08/28/07 — YTD and Historical Returns - Key Asset Classes

08/27/07 — Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Implodes

08/26/07 — Energy Consumption & Price Forecasts

08/24/07 — Subprime Mess Hits Muni Market

08/21/07 — Which Structural Problem to Solve?

08/21/07 — Better Safe Than Sorry

08/19/07 — Listening to Important Opinions

08/19/07 — Fed Rates and the Stock and Bond Markets

08/16/07 — 35 Years of Yield Spreads: REITs vs Treasuries

08/15/07 — Correction Arrived, Bear Market Next?

08/15/07 — Equity REITs Not Yet At Fair Value

08/12/07 — Currency Help From Unexpected Source

08/11/07 — Tax Loss Harvesting & Wash Sale Rule

07/31/07 — MSCI Regions - Country Constituents

07/31/07 — Country Fund Returns and GDP Growth Rates

07/30/07 — Seamless, Non-Overlapping Global Portfolio

07/17/07 — Country Corruption Rankings

07/12/07 — ETFs – Less Than Meets the Eye

07/10/07 — Foreign Direct Investment Flows

07/10/07 — Canadian Energy: Renewed Territorial Claims

07/09/07 — BRIC: Carbon Foundation of Economies

06/29/07 — Global versus Domestic Investment Flows

06/27/07 — Municipal Bonds: How Issuers Manage Temporary Investments

06/14/07 — Watch the Global Money Flow AND Fundamentals

06/12/07 — World Market Cap Approach to Allocation

06/07/07 — GAF - Look Beyond the Fund Name

06/06/07 — Currency Investments - Central Bank Rates

06/05/07 — “BuyWrite” - Covered Call Strategy

06/05/07 — Turkey Fund & War Risk

06/05/07 — Extraordinary Investment Risks in Russia

05/08/07 — Revival in U.S. Dollar Fortunes?

05/08/07 — 10-Year Relative Currency Exchange Rates

05/08/07 — Key Currency Curves

05/07/07 — 3-Year Weekly Charts for Key Currencies

06/04/07 — Prior Emerging Market Articles

06/03/07 — Prior Currency Articles

06/02/07 — Prior Equity Income Articles

06/02/07 — Prior Energy Articles

06/01/07 — Prior Portfolio Design Articles

06/01/07 — Prior Real Assets Articles

05/07/07 — Prior BRIC Articles

01/29/07 — REIT Mean Reversion Ahead - the 2006 Party is Over