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2011
• De-Stressing Balanced Fund Investing (Dec) • Alternative Beta—The Third Choice (Nov) • The Long View—Building the 3-D Shelter (Oct) • King of the Mountain (Sep) • The Trouble with Quants (Aug) • Equity Allocations: Thinking Outside of the Box (Jul) • Whack! Today's Misaligned Manager Selection Process (Jun) • Sector Weights: On Average Wrong, but Dynamically Right (May) • Does Unreal GDP Drive Our Policy Choices? (Apr) • The Biggest Urban Legend in Finance (Mar) • "Little Things Make Big Things Happen" (Feb) • The RAFI Five-Year Scorecard (Jan)
2010
• A Smoother Ride for Target Date Funds (Dec) • The Glad Game (Nov) • Hope is Not a Strategy (Oct) • Are 401(k) Investors Fighting Yesterday's War (Sep) • Debt Be Not Proud (Aug) • The Style Roulette and RAFI® Strategy (Jul) • Too Big To Succeed (Jun) • An Emerging Conundrum (May) • Fifty Years of the Popularity Weighted Indexing(Apr) • The Folly of Peer Group Analysis (Mar) • Lessons from the "Naughties" (Feb) • Was It Really A Lost Decade? (Jan)
2009
• The “3-D” Hurricane Force Headwind (Nov) • Rip Van Winkle's Investment Lesson (Oct) • RAFI® Strategy and Quality (Sep) • A Crisis Review of Negative Alpha (Aug) • Too Far, Too Fast? (Jul) • A Complete Toolkit for Fighting Inflation (Jun) • The Great Contra-Trade (May) • IDTT: It’s Different This Time (Apr) • 2008--The Worst Year Ever for Active Management? (Mar) • Discounts and Relative Performance (Feb) • 2008 in Review: Every Rule Has an Exception (Jan)
2008
• The Perfect Storm: Part 2 (Dec) • Emerging Markets--Ripe for a (Fundamental) Recovery (Nov) • What a Difference a Quarter Makes (Oct) • Patience Helps in Low Return World (Sep) • The Anti-Bubble Bursts (Aug) • What’s Going On? A Review of the Recent Fundamental Index® Strategy Performance (Jul) • Liquid Alternatives: More Than Hedge Funds (Jun) • A Middle Ground in the Active/Passive Debate (May) • Indexing in Inefficient Markets (Apr) • An Easier Path to Real Returns (Mar) • Will the Real Passive Strategy Please Step Forward? (Feb) • 2007--A Proof Statement! (Jan)
2007
• The International Fundamental Index Strategy (Dec) • Diversify Your Passive Exposure (Nov) • Avoiding Negative Alpha (Oct) • Does the RAFI Strategy Pick Stocks? (Sep) • Dynamic Style and Size Exposures (Aug) • Price-Indifferent Indexes (Jul) • Pensions and the Fundamental Index® (Jun) • A Small Twist on the Value Debate (Apr) • The Multiple Metric Approach (Mar)
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