Selecting the Best Ingredients for Your Portfolio

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles

By Kent Kramer

11/26/2019

In this third piece of our series on building a better portfolio by thinking of it in terms of tastes, recipes, and ingredients, we’ll focus on the benefits of selecting better ingredients.

Is Your Portfolio Tailored to Fit Your Needs, or Just ‘Off-The-Rack’?

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Advance with Science

By Kent Kramer

11/18/2019

While the alterations may be small and subtle, they make a big difference when it comes to comfort and fit. Our experience is better. For an investment thought experiment, think of the “off the rack suit” as the broad market; we simply take what we get off the shelf with no alteration. Now think of Foster Group as the tailor and the alterations as portfolio personalizations called factor allocations.

Keep Three Buckets in Your Retirement Boat

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By Brad Rempe

10/22/2019

One way to improve your investment experience is to walk through our lifeboat drill. Brad Rempe shares three 'buckets' to include.

Satisfying Your Tastes and Preferences for Investing and Dining

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By Kent Kramer

10/18/2019

If you were asked to describe what you liked about your favorite food, where would you start? If you were asked to describe what you would like in your investment portfolio, what would you emphasize?

The Future is Uncertain. Better to Prepare than Predict.

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles

By Jason Brown

10/08/2019

Because I work for Foster Group, a firm dedicated to truly caring for the financial lives of those we serve, a lot of the conversations we have with regard to this uncertainty relate to money

Carrot Cake, Portfolios, and Recipes that Deliver!

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles

By Kent Kramer

09/27/2019

Changing with My Aging

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Align Purposes and Portfolio

By Alex Battani

08/23/2019

At age 30, I have time to recover from an extended market correction. But, what about when I approach retirement? How might my plan and asset allocation need to change?
 

Timing Isn’t Everything

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles

By Foster Group

08/01/2019

Attempting to buy individual stocks or make tactical asset allocation changes at exactly the “right” time presents investors with substantial challenges.

Being a Counterintuitive Investor – Do Stock Markets Follow GDP?

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty

By Kent Kramer

06/06/2019

It turns out GDP growth rates and stock market performance are not highly correlated in the way we would expect.