A shift in how financial advisors structure client portfolios will drive asset allocation model portfolios to a new $2.9 trillion asset milestone by 2026, predicts a new report from Cerulli Associates ...

Custom asset allocation model portfolios are emerging as a priority for asset manager model providers, according to recent data from Cerulli Associates. Nearly 60 percent of respondents in a recent ...

Below I evaluate each of the asset class buckets. 1. Inflation Beneficiary Equities [IBEs] This asset allocation bucket is performing well and that performance, together with increases in some ...

Model investment portfolios have become a staple for many financial advisors. Their simplicity allows advisors to scale their practices while spending more time managing client relationships. While ...

Model portfolios continue to gain traction with financial advisors. Approximately $424 billion follows model portfolios as of June 2023, a 48% increase from $286 billion two years prior[1]. With this ...

Years ago, when financial advisors had a monopoly on asset allocation decisions, fees ran rather rich. Lately, though, with a surge in the number of index-based products promising to deliver asset ...

Asset allocation is the composition of your investment portfolio across different asset types and classes, such as stocks and bonds. Stocks and bonds are two headlining ingredients in a successful ...

Talks about portfolio asset allocation are often reignited whenever stock market investors are facing uncertainty. When the Trump administration’s tariff policies sent many stock market indexes into ...

BlackRock (BLK) is expanding its model portfolio by adding a 1% to 2% allocation to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT), a move that signals a cautious but long-term bullish view on Bitcoin. The ...

Heading into the last half of the year, I have turned slightly more bullish in light of expected interest rate cuts, the market pricing in the "One Big Beautiful Bill," solid earnings thus far in the ...