IFA-I's Commitment to Passive Investing and Rebalancing

Nobel Prize winning research documents that the most prudent approach for minimizing risk and maximizing expected return is to invest in an entire index, or better yet, a globally diversified, small and value tilted portfolio of indexes. This investment strategy puts the key factors of investment success within your control, as opposed to guessing the outcomes of the future returns of concentrated positions.  Free markets work and risk and return are related. The asset allocation of well documented risk factors among equities, like small and value companies, determines the vast majority of available public equity returns.

The asset allocation of index funds which capture these risk factors should be determined based on an individual’s or a committee’s risk capacity, not a prediction of short term market performance.  By using index funds to deliver the returns on underlying asset classes, you don't incur the uncertainties of manager performance or style drift.  IFA-I advises institutional clients that accepting market rates of return, keeping costs low, maximizing diversification, and maintaining discipline will provide a successful investment experience for its institutional clients.



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