THE AAII JOURNAL JUNE 2022 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
Why I Bonds Have Appeal When Inflation Is Rising
With part of its interest rate based on the rate of inflation, Series I savings bonds might be worth a look in the current environment.
Features
in Portfolio Strategies,Retired Investor,Inflation
Dealing With Inflation in a Retirement Portfolio
The RMD is a built-in inflation adjuster that allows retirees to be more cautious in their asset allocation if they so choose.
in ETFs and Mutual Funds
A Happy Medium: Mid-Cap Mutual Funds and ETFs
Mid caps have the appeal of providing both diversification and growth through capital appreciation and dividends.
in First Cut Stocks,Dividends
High-Yielding Dividend Payers
When investing in dividend stocks, your investment criteria should consider more than just the yield.
in First Cut Stocks,Dividends
Up, Up and Away: Biggest Rising Dividend Payers
Rising dividend-paying stocks have historically provided higher cumulative returns with lower levels of volatility versus non-dividend-paying stocks over long-term holding periods.
in AAII How-To,Offbeat Offerings,Bonds
Do Convertible Bonds Fit Into Your Portfolio?
Convertible bonds have both bond-like and stock-like features. Issuing convertible bonds is a way to offer a low coupon yield, but entice investors with a value-added component.
in Computerized Investing,Advisers,Socially Responsible Investing,Brokerages
Gauging the Current Robo-Advisers on Features & Returns
Insight from The Robo Report into the most compelling robo services for 2022.
in Trading Strategies,Market Actions,Risk
Measuring Market Volatility Trends With the VIX
The power of the S&P 500 Volatility Index lies more in its relative, or comparative, level than in its absolute level.
in AAII Stock Ideas
How to Best Use Stock Screens to Build a Portfolio
By allowing investors to analyze thousands of stocks instantly, stock screens are the most important offense when building and maintaining portfolios.
in Investor Professor,Bonds,Interest Rates,Inflation
Online Exclusive: Understanding the Breakeven Inflation Rate
The breakeven inflation rate is a helpful guide for determining minimal rates of return required to maintain wealth in real terms.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note
I Bonds: A Tactical Choice for Short-Term Savings
From an allocation perspective, I bonds can be viewed as a tactical substitute for other shorter-term savings products.
in Dispatches,Bonds,Inflation
Breakeven Rates Signaling a Potential Slowing of Inflation
As of mid-May 2022, expectations for future inflation show short-term signs of having peaked.
in Dispatches,Retirement Planning
Early Cash-Out Can Significantly Impact Retirement Income
Younger adults with small retirement accounts are prone to small cash-outs, which can significantly impact retirement income, data shows.
in Dispatches
Live Chat Forums Associated With Higher-Returning Stocks
Live (synchronous) group chats help investors find stocks likely to outperform and are more informative than investing forums that are geared to individual posts and comments (asynchronous).
in AAII Community
Find Your Fellow Fixed-Income Investors
Ask other members about tips for successful income investing, from how they’ve approached bond funds to strategies for building bond ladders.
The AAII Journal, a leading investment publication, provides readers with a continuing stream of insights and ideas that focus on how you can improve your investment results. Unlike many investment magazines, ours is completely unbiased, educational and contains no advertising.
AAII has published this prestigious financial journal every month for more than 40 years. Members receive it for free and have access to thousands of evergreen articles online so they can reference information and strategies for previous market situations with a few clicks of the mouse.
Our stock journal helps individual investors manage their portfolios, build sound investment strategies and navigate all types of financial conditions. Articles range from optimizing target-date fund portfolios to retirement account withdrawal strategies and analysis on robo-advisor performance.
The magazine also has recurring features our members find invaluable. Every quarter, we dissect our model stock portfolio and provide updates to its holdings and performance. This analysis helps individual investors manage small-cap value investments.
We also offer an annual tax guide in our financial magazine. This detailed investment magazine issue covers many details that individual investors need to consider when filing their taxes. It keeps readers updated on any recent changes to tax laws and provisions and provides a handy guide to tax implications of personal investments to cut through any tax filing confusion.
Another annual feature covers ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and mutual funds. This edition helps individual investors understand what to look for when investing in funds. Online, we accompany those articles with sortable tables so that members have an interactive component to their investment research. This helps individual investors plan their portfolios and invest with confidence.
Other regular features in the AAII Journal include financial planning, stock ideas and investor professor. Financial planning articles walk investors through the process and difficulties of crafting strategies for creating wealth regardless of age. They also cover difficult situations, such as estate planning, and helpful advice for getting kids and grandchildren interested in investing.
Stock ideas, as the name implies, give readers a peek at new screens and the stocks that pass them. This part of our investing magazine helps readers identify new opportunities in the markets, flagged by a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Because we all, as investors, need ideas, this remains one of the most popular categories.
Investor professor helps readers invest with knowledge and confidence. It deals with contingencies, such as “What happens to your investment if a company goes bankrupt?” and gives actionable advice on what resources you should use when considering a new broker. Our readers enjoy this section because of its practicality and enduring tips.
Frequent internal contributors include president John Bajkowski; AAII Journal editor and vice president Charles Rotblut; Stock Superstars Report lead analyst Wayne A. Thorp; and Dividend Investing editor Derek Hageman. Together, these internal contributors have nearly a century of market wisdom and research, which they share with clear and concise prose to help individual investors improve their knowledge and portfolios.
The AAII Journal also includes frequent guest contributions from the financial and economic space. Articles from outside industry experts differentiate our financial magazine from others and provide additional points of view for our readers. Previous guest authors have included John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard; Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Charles Schwab; and Nobel laureate and Yale professor Robert Shiller.
We hope you’ll enjoy our articles and, if you’re not a member, consider joining the Association so you can get our prestigious magazine sent to your door every month.
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