How to Check Out a Broker

There are several Web sites you can visit to find information about a particular broker. These fall into two camps: Those that can provide disciplinary information or complaints about a broker or firm, and those that can provide customer evaluations of brokerage firms.

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February 2004 Issue

Bonds
Inflation Protection: I Savings Bonds
I Savings Bonds are a vehicle for protecting fixed-income investments against inflation. They are the newest and most attractive of the savings bonds.

Bonds
TIPS for Inflation-Proofing Your Portfolio: A Guide to Inflation-Indexed Securities
Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities--TIPS--were introduced in 1997, and designed so that principal and interest payments would be protected against inflation. Are these right for you? A look at TIPS, TIPS funds, and I savings bonds.

Bonds
TIPS for Inflation-Proofing Your Portfolio: A Guide to Inflation-Indexed Securities
Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities (TIPS) were introduced in 1997, and designed so that principal and interest payments would be protected against inflation. Are these right for you? A look at TIPS, TIPS funds, and I savings bonds.

Broker Guide 2004
Cut Your Costs With AAII's Discount Broker Survey 2004
Investment costs can grow quickly and get out of hand. But you can trim them back with the help of AAII's annual survey of discount broker firms.

AAII Model Portfolios
Why Well-Designed Portfolios Don't Depend on Cap Size and Style Categories
A look at the Individual Investor's Mutual Fund Portfolio--how it performed and its investment characteristics.

Hot Links
How to Check Out a Broker
Where can you get background information and ratings on discount brokers? Visit these Web sites to check a broker's disciplinary history or see what others think of a broker's services.

Stock Screens
The Zweig Approach: Growth Stocks That Can Keep Pace
A closer look at our top-performing screen over the long term, based on Martin Zweig's approach to identifying stocks that have strong earnings growth and price action, and selling at reasonable price-earnings ratios.

Portfolio Strategies
Retiree Stock Allocation Recommendations: Do You Fit the "Mold"?
How much of your portfolio should be invested in stocks if you are living off of your retirement savings? A look at where the professional advisors agree and disagree concerning the "typical" investor.

Departments
Briefly Noted
Current news items of interest to individual investors.

Departments
Letters to the Editor
Member questions and comments on recent AAII Journal articles.

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