THE AAII JOURNAL MARCH 2024 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
The Power of Holding Some Cash in a Portfolio
An allocation to cash can make sense in many portfolios both to reduce risk and, for retirees, to facilitate increased risk.
Features
in Portfolio Strategies,Rebalancing
How Rebalancing Helps When Downturns Strike Early
Retirees making withdrawals from diversified portfolios who rebalanced had a better outcome than those who did little to preserve their allocation weightings.
in Beginning Investor,Getting Started
What to Consider Before Investing
The choices you make regarding how often you want to invest and what you want to invest in should all lead you to the same conclusion.
in First Cut Stocks,AAII Stock Ideas
Stock Screen All-Stars Appear on Multiple Passing Companies Lists
A First Cut that lists stocks passing the greatest number of screens tracked by AAII at the Screening area of AAII.com.
in Financial Statements,Fundamentals,Stocks
Beyond the Numbers: Getting Started With Financial Statements
Setting the stage for our new AAII Journal series by introducing basic concepts for mastering company analysis.
in AAII How-To,Stock Strategies
The Eight Metrics AAII Uses to Identify Quality Stocks
AAII’s A+ Quality Grade encompasses a comprehensive set of financial indicators to identify high-quality stocks.
in Stock Strategies
When to Say Goodbye to a Stock: Sell Rules for Savvy Investors
A well-defined approach to selling helps separate the truly successful investors from all others.
in ETFs and Mutual Funds,Small Cap Value Investing
Gaining Small-Cap Exposure Via Mutual Funds and ETFs
How small-cap mutual funds and ETFs can add diversification to your domestic stock investments.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note
Don't Let the S&P 500's Milestone Blind You to Past Downturns
When the S&P 500 is at new highs, investors forget that the index went nowhere during the so-called lost decade.
in Dispatches,Economic and Market Analysis,Market Actions
The S&P 500 at 5,000: Don't Be Fooled by Point Hype
There is an obvious difference between point moves and percentage changes.
in Dispatches
Indexers Can Exclude Some Stocks Without Affecting Returns
Excluding a low to moderate number of stocks from a passive portfolio following an index has minimal influence on investor performance.
in Dispatches
Higher Fixed-Income Returns Boost Safe Withdrawal Rates
Morningstar’s study of retirement income showed a higher safe withdrawal rate in 2023 than previous years due to stronger fixed-income yields.
in AAII Community
How Do You Outsmart Misconceptions in Your Retirement Thinking?
AAII Retirement Planning and Withdrawals Community invites you to share your insights, experiences and strategies
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.
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