These posts, which cover everything from nonprofit investing to designing your most effective retirement plan, were the eight most-read articles on the Vanguard Blog for Institutional Investors in 2018.
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Recent posts
Maintaining stability on a slippery slope
Categories: InvestmentsPlan sponsors should consider a stable value fund, which generally provides the yield of a short- to intermediate-term bond fund with the price volatility of a money market fund. This may help retirees drawing down savings.
When assisting nonprofits as an outsourced CIO, Vanguard offers a straightforward, competitive, and low-cost alternative to the famous Yale endowment model.
What I learned as a hedge fund manager
Categories: InvestmentsSenior Investment Strategist Chris Tidmore explains how properly benchmarking hedge funds and other alternatives can improve their relative performance.
I just don’t get it
Categories: InvestmentsRecent claims that the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index (the “U.S. Agg”) is now somehow greatly different than it was do not make sense to me. As Vanguard has noted before, investment grade bonds remain a good source of diversification.
A taste for mixed investing
Categories: Investments, RetirementThe single-fund solution can work for most plan participants. But for those who are more informed and engaged, adding a satellite investment on top of a TDF isn’t necessarily a mistake.
Bear markets are similar to fingerprints in that no two are exactly the same. This can complicate investing for even professional money managers. However, we believe certain factors can improve the probability of success using active management.
