We review alternative investment portfolios and discuss their outlook. 

We review the tax free municipal bond investment portfolios and discuss their outlook. 

We introduce major brokerage specific conservative portfolios using a combination stock index funds and total return bond fund portfolios. 

We review our fixed income total return bond fund portfolios in 2016. In 2016, these portfolios outperformed the benchmark again. We also discuss the fixed income outlook. 

We review tatical asset allocation portfolios in 2016 and examine their underperformance in close details. 

We review tatical asset allocation portfolios in 2016 and examine their underperformance in close details. 

We review strategic asset allocation portfolios in 2016 and discuss asset outlook in 2017. 

Enhanced index funds can be alternatives for asset classes that improve portfolio returns. 

We review broad base core mutual funds used in our brokerage plans. 

We review core index ETFs used in our brokerage investment plans. 

We look at international exposure of US large companies’ business and discuss its impact on asset allocation. 

We review major asset trends and argue that the post election market reaction is more a short term trend. 

We review fixed income bond segments. We believe that it’s very likely the bond market will experience a major turn of trend. 

In a fair capital market, stocks can achieve a long term positive inflation adjusted returns regardless of economy power status. This is evident from the long term stock returns in UK. 

We review the recent trends of commodities and the performance of several managed futures funds. 

We discuss the so called ‘mistakes’ in investing and point out the difference between a real mistake and a temporary investment loss/underperformance. 

Our review on momentum based portfolios at several levels indicate the recent difficult for many such portfolios. However, longer term, such portfolios, especially the one based on multi-asset momentum, should have a place in an investor’s overall portfolio. 

We summarize our users’ surveys and feedback. 

We argue that unlike in stock investing, actively managed bond funds can outperform bond index funds more consistently and thus can be used as candidate funds for fixed income/bond asset class. 

Based on long term behavior of active stock funds, we believe the best way in stock investing is to invest in low cost index funds instead of active funds.