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"The money managers fired by big institutions like pension funds and university endowments usually go on to outperform the firms that replace them. No wonder the institutional process of selecting money managers has the cynical nickname of "hire high, fire low.""

--Jason Zweig, MONEY Magazine, “The 20-year portfolio”, February 19, 2004

Special Announcement From IFA


We are pleased to announce that financial economist and 1990 Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz has joined the IFA Advisory Board. Dr. Markowitz is also the recipient of the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize. He is best known as the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, which explains the effects of asset risk, correlation and diversification on an investment portfolio's expected return. We are pleased to have this finance legend join IFA's team.



Also read the IFA Exclusive article
“ What to do about the Financial Transparency Crisis ”
by Harry as he outlines a solution for resolving the current financial crisis.
Click here to read the full article.

 

IFA Institutional

IFA Institutional's fee-only fiduciary services provide professional investment management to corporations and charitable institutions.

IFA-I matches institutions with portfolios by carefully measuring risk capacity and risk exposure, providing the ability to earn optimal risk-adjusted returns.

Incorporating the tenets of fiduciary prudence and Modern Portfolio Theory, IFA-I invests plan assets to optimize the intrinsic relationship between risk, return, time and diversification.

Investment Policy Statements reflect IFA-I's commitment to the Science of Investing. IFA-I educates plan trustees regarding risk and diversification to create, purchase, and rebalance a portfolio that invests across multiple asset classes and time.

Extensive research shows that active management and fund speculation increase expenses and add excessive and unrewarded risk. Hundreds of peer-reviewed academic studies and 80 years of risk and return data are the backbone of IFA-I's passive strategy that controls costs and replaces speculation with risk-optimization and global diversification. 

The charts below shows the results of a peer-reviewed study that reveals the frivolity of hiring active investment managers. Click here to see the study and its conclusions.


 

 

CLICK HERE TO SEE PAST PERFORMANCE IS
NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS


 



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