Updates
2009 Q1 SPIVA Canada Report
Standard and Poor’s releases a quarterly report called the SPIVA report (Standard and Poor’s Index Versus Active funds scorecard). It is a constantly updated comparison of actively managed mutual funds versus their benchmark indices with comparisons made for the past quarter, past 12 months and the past 5 years.
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May 2009 RAFI Fundamentals Newsletter
Research Affiliates publishes a monthly newsletter called RAFI Fundamentals.
May 2009’s edition is titled, “The Great Contra Trade”. Some critics summarily dismiss the value add of the Fundamental Index being attributed to a simple value tilt. However, the value add might better be attributed to the contra-trading nature of the Fundamental Index. The indexes were reconstituted [...]
The Case For Fundamentally Indexing Emerging Markets
If you are a student of Fundamental Indexing, you would know that a significant source of the value-add is through the reduced participation in pricing bubbles (more specifically, the reduced exposure to high P/E stocks during the subsequent bursting of said bubbles). Since Emerging Markets are more prone to pricing bubbles (as those markets are [...]
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April 2009 RAFI Fundamentals Newsletter
Research Affiliates publishes a monthly newsletter called RAFI Fundamentals. April 2009’s edition is titled, “IDTT: It’s Different This Time”. These four words are usually uttered during periods of uncertainty, but there are four other words which are much more powerful from a historical perspective: “Reversion To The Mean”. Arnott builds a strong case for dismissing [...]
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March 2009 RAFI Fundamentals Newsletter
Research Affiliates publishes a monthly newsletter called RAFI Fundamentals. March 2009’s edition is titled, “2008 - The Worst Year Ever For Active Management?”. Conventional wisdom posits that active management should have added the most value in a bear market, but sifting through the data reveals a different story.
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March 2009 Fund Fact Sheets
PRO FTSE RAFI Canada Index ( A | B | F )
PRO FTSE RAFI US Index ( A | B | F )
PRO FTSE RAFI Global Index ( A | B | F )
PRO FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets Index ( A | B | F )
PRO FTSE RAFI Hong Kong China ( A | B [...]
The Power Of Indexation
An article titled “The Power Of Indexation” appeared in the March 2009 edition of Advisor’s Edge (you may recognize the author). This magazine is free to financial advisors to subscribe to, and if you don’t receive a copy you can click here to initiate a free subscription.
The article discusses the various ways that advisors can [...]
30 Years of Time Magazine Covers and The Stock Market
I stumbled upon a presentation floating around on the internet which looks at the past 30 years of Time Magazine covers as they relate to the stock markets. Essentially, one theme is that once the market meltdowns make the front page it’s not a bad time to get back into the equity markets - such [...]
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Research Affiliates’ Advisory Panel Members
As you may know, Pro-Financial Asset Management’s Fundamental Index Funds are based on the patent pending methodology created by Research Affiliates. What you may not know is that Research Affiliates’ Advisory Panel is made up of some of the most influential financial minds in history.:
(NOTE: Mr. Peter Bernstein served on the Advisory Panel until his [...]
Guest Article: Voodoo or Science?
This article was submitted by Jim Stark, a practicing financial advisor who wanted to share some food for thought. If you would like to submit an article to be published on AlphaAdvisor.ca please send your submissions to preetb@pro-financial.ca.
So I hopped on to my computer one morning and typed in the phrase “scientific method” into my [...]
