Many advisors are turning away from mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts to build client portfolios. But not Jeff Leonard, founder and managing partner of Leonard & Martens, a 25-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, practice under the Raymond James umbrella with $1.2 billion in assets under management. Leonard has tried SMAs and
One should properly diversify the portfolio, but over or under-diversification will not work. Reasonable diversification is important, says Mukesh Kochar, National Head of Wealth, AUM Capital. In an interview with MintGenie, Kochar said that investors must refrain from investing in a sole financial instrument or those of the same kind of instruments, as putting all
Shifting Supply Chains The idea: We like prospects for economic growth in Vietnam and the Philippines. We continue to see supply chains shift to Vietnam, and it will become a strategic manufacturing hub for everything from apparel to electronics, durables and increasingly automotive and electric vehicle value chains. It’s relatively large labor force is very