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IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 36 - Should You Be Worried About Your Investments? 26 Sep 2008 | 08:00 am
"It is a certainty that equity markets will be full of uncertainty. This uncertainty is the reason investors should expect returns." — Mark T. Hebner President of IFA. Author of Index Funds: The 12-St...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 35 - Fallen Market Perspectives 17 Sep 2008 | 08:00 am
"The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment." — Jeremy J. Siegel, The Wall ...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 34 - What Are You Paying for Your 401(k)? 12 Sep 2008 | 08:00 am
"Fiduciaries should strongly consider index funds as an alternative to actively managed funds. Index funds incur about 80% less in transaction costs than actively managed funds…long-term returns for a...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 33 - Commodities: A Cautionary Tale 5 Sep 2008 | 08:00 am
" Remember when you buy a commodity, you're not buying something that generates earnings and profit. You're buying a hard asset and hoping another buyer will be willing to pay more for that asset in t...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 32 - Should You Invest in Down Markets? 29 Aug 2008 | 08:00 am
"The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage." -- Benjami...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 31 18 Aug 2008 | 08:00 am
"It's not easy bein' green." --As sung by Kermit the Frog, with lyrics by Joe Rapposo [Read more here]
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 29: Mark Hebner Explains the Trouble with Market Timing 1 Aug 2008 | 08:00 am
Widely regarded as the “Father of Modern Security Analysis”, Benjamin Graham (1894-1976) has inspired many investors, including professional investor Warren Buffett. In Graham’s quote above, he explai...
IFA's Quote of the Week - Issue 28: Mark Hebner Explains the Value of Long-term Equity Investing 29 Jul 2008 | 08:00 am
Market volatility makes for scary headlines. A healthy dose of history gives some much needed perspective. Read more here.
Another milestone along our path to changing the way the world invests! 23 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am
Index Funds Advisors named the nation’s third-fastest growing financial advisory firm!* -Base on Financial Advisor, July 2008 issue, based on 2006-2007 results for the $1 Billion and over category. [C...
Mark Hebner Explains the Pitfalls of Manager Picking 19 Mar 2008 | 07:00 am
Recent news has dealt a drubbing to many hedge funds investors. The subprime mortgage fallout has awakened a great many sleeping giants whose excessive appetite for leverage seems to have caught them ...