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Welcome to SensiblePortfolios™. Our focus is on low-cost, properly constructed portfolios based on proven academic research. We offer investment strategies that are affordable, understandable, and bundled with easy-to-read performance reports. 

Let us compare your current investment strategy to ours. If you’re doing well, we’ll let you know. If SensiblePortfolios would make sense for you, we’ll tell you more about how and why.

SensiblePortfolios™ Blog:

• August 14th, 2010 - Do Active Money Managers Beat the International Markets?

  • It is not uncommon today for a well-diversified investment portfolio to hold 45%-50% in non-US assets. So now is a good time to ask the question can the US-based active managers through skillful stock picking and market timing outperform international financial markets?
    The SPIVA Scorecard published semi-annually by S&P Indices provides [...]

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• July 19th, 2010 - Double Dip Recession? Seven Reasons Why Not

  • An interesting article appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal about the chances of a double-dip recession. The U.S. economy may be slowing down, but this article lists seven reasons why it isn’t heading for a double dip recession.
    1. The Consumer Seems Firm Enough
    Retail sales dipped in May by 1.4%, but that follows a 10% advance in [...]

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• June 28th, 2010 - Building Your Five-Star Portfolio

  •  Some investors might hesitate before investing in a mutual fund that has a three-star rating from Morningstar. Why settle for three-stars when you can have five?
    The trouble with this star rating system is it is based solely on past performance. It is a rating system with 20-20 hindsight.
    The real question is how successful is the [...]

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• June 9th, 2010 - The Flipside to Today’s Headline News

  • Understand that financial markets are fairly efficient at pricing in additional news. By the time you read about it, it’s old news to the markets; they’ve already gone on to celebrating or fearing something else.

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• May 24th, 2010 - Market Volatility and 20-20 Hindsight

  • Because nobody can predict when the greater gains of bull markets are going to occur, you have to be there ahead of time to fully benefit from them. Which means the best strategy is to not get out to begin with.

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