THE AAII JOURNAL JUNE 2023 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
Filling Your Coffee Can Portfolio to Stash Away
Buying great companies and holding them forever has several advantages over other strategies, including pure indexing.
Features
in AAII Stock Ideas,Fundamentals
Identifying Profitable Companies by High Levels of ROE
Screening for return on equity is a powerful tool for discovering companies that are profitable, efficient and use their balance sheet effectively.
in Computerized Investing,Advisers,Brokerages
Turmoil in the Robo-Advice Industry, Plus the Best Robo Platforms
A look back at the digital advice industry and an update on current robo products and performance.
in AAII How-To,Fundamentals
Ratios for Determining a Company’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Financial ratios can elevate investor knowledge and create a more detailed picture about a company’s stability, competitive position and profitability.
in Portfolio Strategies,Asset Allocation,PRISM Wealth-Building Process,AAII Asset Allocation Models
Incorporating Equal-Weighted Funds Into Your Allocation
Equal-weighted funds hold the same securities as similar market-cap-weighted funds but in different proportions, reducing stock-specific risk.
in ETFs and Mutual Funds,Mutual Funds,Exchange-Traded Funds,REITs
Comparing and Contrasting Real Estate Funds
Mutual funds and ETFs provide a low-cost entry point to real estate and allow investment in a variety of real estate markets.
in Portfolio Strategies,Retirement Planning
Key Numbers for Your Retirement Prep Checklist
You can retire with confidence by estimating four numbers that are used to calculate a Secure Income Score.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note
Using Your Own “Coffee Can” Investing Strategy
Use your ability as an individual investor to invest over a long time horizon to your advantage.
in Dispatches,Bonds
I Bond Yields Are Down From Their Peak
How composite rates for Series I bonds issued within the last five years have evolved.
in Dispatches
Did Value Investing Ever Go Away?
With value and growth stocks tending to move in cycles, investors are taking renewed interest in value investing after its outperformance in 2022.
in Dispatches
Timing the Market Using Factors
An AQR Capital Management study suggests that in addition to traditional price momentum, capturing the momentum of characteristic-based factors may boost returns.
in AAII Community
Using PRISM to Conduct Your Midyear Review: Adapt and Thrive in Ever-Changing Market Cycles
The midyear mark is the perfect time for AAII members to take stock of their financial well-being and stay in touch with chapters.
in Member News
Member News 2023
Read about the latest enhancements to the AAII Community and improvements coming soon to AAII.com. Plus, see our annual financial summary and academic research awards.
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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