THE AAII JOURNAL JANUARY 2023 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
2022 Review of AAII Stock Screens: Outperforming During a Bear Market Year
The year 2022 was a rough year in terms of absolute returns but a good year in terms of relative performance for the strategies that AAII tracks.
Features
in Portfolio Strategies,Risk
Learning to Manage the Myriad Risks in Your Portfolio
If recent events have raised your stress levels, now is the time to review your portfolio for any of the potential risks.
in AAII How-To,ETFs and Mutual Funds
Tidying Up Your Fund Portfolio
If you have been investing for some time you likely have an assortment of funds that were reasonable investments at the time but may no longer fit your investment objectives or compare favorably to their peers.
in Mutual Funds,Retirement Planning
How Target-Date Funds Work
Understand what you’re investing in and how it fits into your retirement plan when choosing a target-date fund, as variations abound.
in PRISM Wealth-Building Process,Portfolio Strategies
Putting Your Portfolio Back on Track Following a Bear Market
Actionable steps to improve your odds of successfully reaching your goals when a down market affects your portfolio.
in Behavioral Finance,Portfolio Strategies
The Importance of Filtering Out the Urge to Trade
How one longtime market observer became a big believer in behavioral finance over the years.
in AAII Model Portfolios,Small Cap Value Investing
Influx of New Blood for Model Shadow Stock Portfolio
After removing four stocks during the quarterly review, six new stocks were added.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note
Making Predictions About the Future Is Tough
Yogi Berra’s quote about how tough it is to make predictions, especially about the future, holds true today.
in Dispatches,Retired Investor,Level3 Passive Portfolio
Level3 Withdrawal Strategy Goes Into Defensive Mode
Following last year’s bear market, AAII’s Level3 withdrawal strategy calls for retirees to withdraw from their defensive (“safe”) assets and not equities in 2023.
in Dispatches,Portfolio Strategies
Exposure to the Size Factor Drives Equal-Weight Outperformance
Examining the key drivers of equal-weighted portfolios outperforming value-weighted portfolios over multiple decades.
in Dispatches,Retirement Planning
Younger Adults Are Increasingly Participating in 401(k) Plans
An annual analysis of 401(k) retirement plans showed that 38% of plan participants were in their 20s or 30s as of year-end 2020.
in AAII Community,Trading Strategies,Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis for the Long-Term Investor
Our Technical Analysis Community focuses on how a long-term, disciplined investor might use technical strategies and provides a space to share thoughts about technical concepts, services and resources.
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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