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What is a SEC Form ADV Part 2 Brochure? Sounds boring but it’s not. It’s an informative Client Brochure.

If you do business with or are considering doing business with a Registered Investment Advisor Firm (RIA), that RIA should give your their official Form ADV Part 2 Brochure. It’s sometime referred to as the “Client Brochure”. You should read it. It’s a plain language disclosure document that the RIA must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) annually. Download Successful Portfolios April 2017 Client Brochure.

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How-to-Calculate-Rate-of-Return-ROR-Excel-Worksheet

Learn How to Calculate the Rate of Return on Your Investment Portfolio or Any Other Asset: Free Excel Worksheet.

Learn how to use Excel to calculate: (1) Total Rate of Return (ROR) on an asset or portfolio; (2) Annualized Return (AR), Annualized Percentage Rate (APR), or Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR); (3) Total ROR from CAGR, APY or AR; (4) Number of days between dates; (5) Time Weighted Return (TWR); (6) Money Weighted Return (MWR) or Internal Rate of Return ((IRR).

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What is a fee-only advisor?

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) definition of “fee-only” financial advisor reads: “A (CFP) certificant may describe his or her practice as “fee-only” if, and only if, all of the certificant’s compensation from all of his or her client work comes exclusively from the clients in the form of fixed, flat, hourly, percentage or performance-based fees.”

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Stock Bond Benchmark Returns Thru June 2016

Here is BlackRock’s most excellent Stock and Bond Benchmark Returns Comparison for June 2016. Download the PDF file. A furious post Brexit rally turns most US stock indices positive for month of Junes. Bond indices were well bid all month.

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Select Directional ETF Model

On June 24, 2016, the first trading day after BREXIT, global stock markets plunged. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4%. But our ETF Model Portfolio gained nearly 1%. This represents actual investment performance on over $2.2 million invested. Not a hypothetical simulation.

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What is a SEC Form ADV Part 2 Brochure? Sounds boring but it’s not. It’s an informative Client Brochure.

If you do business with or are considering doing business with a Registered Investment Advisor Firm (RIA), that RIA should give your their official Form ADV Part 2 Brochure. It’s sometime referred to as the “Client Brochure”. You should read it. It’s a plain language disclosure document that the RIA must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) annually. Download Successful Portfolios April 2017 Client Brochure.

Read More »
How-to-Calculate-Rate-of-Return-ROR-Excel-Worksheet

Learn How to Calculate the Rate of Return on Your Investment Portfolio or Any Other Asset: Free Excel Worksheet.

Learn how to use Excel to calculate: (1) Total Rate of Return (ROR) on an asset or portfolio; (2) Annualized Return (AR), Annualized Percentage Rate (APR), or Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR); (3) Total ROR from CAGR, APY or AR; (4) Number of days between dates; (5) Time Weighted Return (TWR); (6) Money Weighted Return (MWR) or Internal Rate of Return ((IRR).

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What is a fee-only advisor?

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) definition of “fee-only” financial advisor reads: “A (CFP) certificant may describe his or her practice as “fee-only” if, and only if, all of the certificant’s compensation from all of his or her client work comes exclusively from the clients in the form of fixed, flat, hourly, percentage or performance-based fees.”

Read More »

Stock Bond Benchmark Returns Thru June 2016

Here is BlackRock’s most excellent Stock and Bond Benchmark Returns Comparison for June 2016. Download the PDF file. A furious post Brexit rally turns most US stock indices positive for month of Junes. Bond indices were well bid all month.

Read More »

Select Directional ETF Model

On June 24, 2016, the first trading day after BREXIT, global stock markets plunged. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4%. But our ETF Model Portfolio gained nearly 1%. This represents actual investment performance on over $2.2 million invested. Not a hypothetical simulation.

Read More »
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