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AAAMP Blog Highlights – Spring Fever Edition

I’m going to take a week off from posting. It’s a challenge to do 4 weekly posts and stay on top of some of the long term projects I want to work on, including some improvements to the AAAMP Blog. I’ll be back with the Self Directed Investing For Retirement Carnival on Tuesday, April 24th. [...]

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AAAMP Blog by Ken Faulkenberry

Ken Faulkenberry earned an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in investments. Ken has 25 years of investment experience and is dedicated to helping people with self-directed investment management through the Arbor Investment Planner. His asset allocation strategies have an outstanding performance record.

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Low Volatility Portfolio Finishes 2011 at All-Time High

January 5, 2012

The Arbor Asset Allocation Model Portfolio (AAAMP) finished at an annual all-time high for the third consecutive year, and ten out of the last eleven years. Despite the fact the S&P 500 is still 20% below the all-time high set in 2007; the AAAMP has finished the last 3 years at a new all-time high. [...]

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Two New Ways to Stay Connected to the AAAMP Blog

December 10, 2011

The AAAMP Blog is dedicated to educating the self-directed investor. You can find quality investing information on a wide variety of subjects including, portfolio management, risk management, asset allocation, diversification, investment planning, dividend investing, etc. Now there are two new ways to stay connected to our educational materials! Receive the AAAMP Blog directly to your [...]

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Best Gift Ideas for the Novice and Seasoned Investor

December 7, 2011

Investors young and old, novice and seasoned, enjoy getting a gift related to the subject they love, Investing. You may want to think about an appropriate gift to stimulate the interest of a son, daughter, or grandchild in investing. Or consider giving a seasoned investor something useful or valuable related to investing. Here are some [...]

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I’m Thankful For These Great Personal Finance Blogs

November 23, 2011

I’m Thankful for…. On this Thanksgiving Day I want to share with you some great Personal Finance Blogs and awesome people who have helped me. The AAAMP Blog is growing, and growing fast. First I’m thankful for my readers who are supporting the blog by returning. That tells me the AAAMP Blog is providing valuable [...]

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Another All-Time High for the AAAMP

November 12, 2011

The Arbor Asset Allocation Model Portfolio (AAAMP) finished the week ending 11/11/2011 at another all-time record high. Since 1/01/2000 the AAAMP is up +137% versus the S&P500 which is up +6% (including dividends). The philosophy of the AAAMP is risk adverse. The goal of the portfolio is to experience only a fraction of losses in [...]

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AAAMP Finished Week at All-Time High

October 14, 2011

After outperforming the S&P 500 by 14 percentage points in the third quarter the Arbor Asset Allocation Model Portfolio (AAAMP) finished this week at an All-Time High! The AAAMP is a real-time portfolio used as a model for subscribers of the Arbor Investment Planner. The portfolio employs a risk adverse strategy using a tactical asset [...]

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AAAMP Outperforms S&P 500 by 14 Percentage Points in 3rd Quarter

October 1, 2011

One of the most important and underutilized concepts of investing is preservation of capital. If you lose 50% of your portfolio it takes a 100% gain to get back your original principal. If you lose 10% is only takes an 11% gain to get back to breakeven. The Arbor Asset Allocation Model Portfolio (AAAMP) uses [...]

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AAAMP Blog Will Host Self Directed Investing For Retirement Carnival

September 28, 2011

The Self Directed Investing for Retirement Carnival will be hosted weekly by the AAAMP Blog and accept articles from a variety of quality bloggers. After adopting and hosting the Value Investing Carnival I realized AAAMP Blog readers would be better served with a larger variety of articles on self-directed investing. There are important benefits to [...]

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