Why Is There So Much Confusion About Total Return Investing?

Wall Street Post Game submits: Asset allocation explains 90% of the variability in a portfolio, a common thesis in the investment community. State Street recently published a report that details how investors should structure their portfolios and allocate assets from a different approach, leaving behind pieces of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). Here’s what they have to say and what it means.

For several years now, the Federal Reserve has been buying up Treasury bonds in an attempt to boost the economy with monetary stimulus.

Jim Trippon submits:A popular acronym that traders like to throw around a lot is KISS. Translation: Keep it simple, stupid. Truer words have never been spoken. I certainly don't want to imply anyone reading this lacks intelligence, but it pays to remember the KISS principle can be applied to investing or holding periods that are longer than the typical intraday or swing trade. In fact, even conservative, income-minded investors can apply the virtues of KISS to successfully build a winning dividend portfolio.

San Diego-based Brandes Investment Partners is best known for making a few, but very substantial changes to way it tries to meet the needs of Canadian clients. For instance: —    In 2006 it signed a partnership arrangement with Sionna Investment Managers, a deal where the two parties share equally in the costs and the revenues. From Brandes’ perspective the alternative was to retain Sionna as a sub-advisor; —    In July 2011 it unveiled its first new mutual fund, the Sionna Monthly Income Fund, in more than five years;

With little fanfare, he turned the emotional casino called the stock market into a machine as predictable as a fine Swiss watch George Frazer, a proponent of dividend investing who won notice for market-beating returns during a seven-decade career as fund manager at Toronto-based Leon Frazer & Associates, has died. He was 86. He died on Feb. 6 in Toronto, according to Turner & Porter funeral home. No cause was given.

At long last, a stupid, as well as illegal idea dies on the vine. Bloomberg reports Treasury, Fed Oppose Using Platinum Coin to Avoid Debt Limit The U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve oppose the idea of minting platinum coins as a way to avoid the U.S. debt ceiling, according to a statement from Treasury spokesman Anthony Coley.

Benzinga submits: By Mani MahadevanThe Coca-Cola Corporation (KO) offers an excellent opportunity for investors to invest in a strong stock that looks to have positive momentum moving forward. KO is a major player in almost every sector of the beverage industry, with sales in over 200 countries, more than 500 brands and sales of approximately 1.6 billion drinks a day.