THE AAII JOURNAL JUNE 2024 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
How Best to Mitigate Sequence Risk at Retirement
A few modest guidelines will naturally insulate a retirement portfolio from both sequence and size of returns risk during the early years of portfolio withdrawals.
Features
in Portfolio Strategies,Trading Strategies,Behavioral Finance,Active Investing
Active Investors Can Still Win in “Efficient” Markets
To achieve above-average returns, investors need to be better at interpreting information than the average investor.
in Computerized Investing,Advisers,Brokerages
2024 Robo-Advice Landscape: Industry Shifts and Leading Platforms
Increased fees at one robo-adviser and the shuttering of two robos at large firms illustrate the difficulty of making a profit while offering advisory services at rock-bottom prices.
in ETFs and Mutual Funds,Mutual Funds,Exchange-Traded Funds,Active Investing
Active Strategies That Have Fared Well Among Mutual Funds and ETFs
When evaluating active strategies, consider manager tenure, differentiated strategies and segments with less competition for active managers.
in AAII How-To,Stock Strategies
How to Boost Returns by Incorporating Momentum
Portfolios of companies with strong price momentum have realized higher returns than the portfolios of companies with weak momentum.
in AAII Stock Ideas,Growth Investing
Winning on Wall Street: The Martin Zweig Approach
A robust framework for identifying growth stocks with the potential for high returns.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note,Retirement Planning,Active Investing
Navigating the Risks of Investing in Retirement
There is so much debate about how investors should allocate their portfolios in retirement because we have no way of predicting what market conditions will be during our retirement years.
in Dispatches,Bonds,Economic and Market Analysis
Yield Shift Increases Relative Attractiveness of Bonds
The Treasury bond’s yield was approaching a full percentage point above the earnings yield for the S&P 500 index as of early May 2024.
in Dispatches,Behavioral Finance,Social Security
Psychological Factors Strongly Influence the Timing of Social Security Benefits
Feelings of ownership and loss aversion drive many to claim their Social Security benefits early, despite the economic benefits of delaying claims to maximize payouts.
in Dispatches,Stock Strategies,Value Investing
Eliminating Low-Quality and Poor Momentum Stocks Helps Sidestep Value Traps
Investors can potentially boost returns and reduce risk by steering clear of value traps, particularly by screening out low-quality stocks.
in AAII Community,Asset Allocation
Halftime Hustle: Tuning Your Portfolio for the Second Half of the Year
Share your six-month allocation check stories. What changes are you making to ensure you stay on track to achieve your goals?
in Member News
Member News 2024
Read about AAII’s latest enhancements over the past year, including refreshed pages and tools on AAII.com and the launch of the new AAII Retirement Investing service. 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.
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