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	<title>Investor Watchdog - Finance Education &#187; Investment Performance</title>
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		<title>Money Managers&#8217; Creative Advertising Messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Financial Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audited track records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[franklin tempelton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIPS compliant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fascinated with the advertising messages of money managers who want people to believe they produce exceptional results for their clients.
Unfortunately, no money management firm can make that claim so they resort to marketing messages that convey exceptional results without saying they actually produce those results.
One of my favorites is Franklin Templeton&#8217;s message that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Beating A Lipper Average A Meaningful Accomplishment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Classes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lipper Average]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several money managers, most notably T. Rowe Price, market their funds as beating their Lipper averages. But, what does than mean and should it influence your decision when you select money managers to invest your assets?
First you have to understand how the Averages are constructed. They are the average performance of the 30 largest actively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is The S&amp;P 500 A Proxy For Your Stock Market Performance?</title>
		<link>http://www.investorwatchdog.com/is-the-sp-500-a-proxy-for-your-stock-market-performance</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Classes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial advisor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial advisors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[large cap stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mid cap stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REITs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[small cap stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, if your investments are limited to large capitalization U.S. stocks. You can compare your financial advisor&#8217;s performance to the S&#038;P 500. Advisors who outperform the S&#038;P 500 are frequently referred to as beating the market.
The answer is No if you own a diversified portfolio of small, mid, and large cap stocks, plus bonds, international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Financial Advisors Monitor Themselves?</title>
		<link>http://www.investorwatchdog.com/should-financial-advisors-monitor-themselves</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advisor Monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance Record]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflicts of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Expense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monitor Advisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Exposure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you raised chickens for a living. Would you hire a fox to guard your chickens?
Financial advisors have conflicts of interest just like the fox. You may have a big problem when you hire an advisor to produce performance and the advisor produces performance reports, and the advisor explains the performance reports to you.
Advisors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes Years to Recover Major Investment Losses</title>
		<link>http://www.investorwatchdog.com/it-takes-years-to-recover-major-investment-losses</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Waymire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investment Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Who Can I Trust?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bear Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bull Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Down Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Losses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Adjusted Returns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like a lot of investors you lost 50% of the market value of your assets due to the market meltdown that occurred in late 2007 and 2008 &#8211; the Dow dropped more than 7,000 points.
That is very bad news. Even worse news is the number of years it will take to recover [...]]]></description>
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