Wealth managers are eager to deploy model portfolios in their client accounts, thanks to models’ ready availability, transactional convenience, and the increasingly broad array of model offerings.

Third-party model portfolios are on the rise--more than 400 have been launched since 2018, according to Morningstar's 2020 Model Portfolio Landscape. Two key reasons for the proliferation of these ...

Model investment portfolios have become a staple for many financial advisors. Their simplicity allows advisors to scale their practices while spending more time managing client relationships. While ...

David Schassler is the head of multi-asset solutions at VanEck. He offers a comprehensive perspective on market trends, asset allocation and strategy analysis. As the head of multi-asset solutions ...

Inverse residual variance (IRV) weighting reduces noise and improves factor performance. Country and industry betas replace ...

A number of members have been asking about "asset classes" and how and why we select the ones we do. This is the first article in what I expect will be a series discussing the asset classes we own and ...

iCapital has taken another step in its efforts to infuse model portfolios with private-market exposure. The fintech platform provider has announced the launch of its Growth Model Portfolio, offering ...

Risk modeling comes in varying shapes and sizes throughout the financial world. Having previously worked as a derivatives trader on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and as a senior risk analyst, I ...

Assets under management in model portfolios clocked in at $3 trillion during the first quarter, a 16% drop compared with the fourth-quarter of 2019 as the selloff related to COVID-19 racked the ...

Model portfolios, which provide financial advisors with a prebuilt framework for investment portfolio design, are surging in popularity. Assets following model portfolios grew to $349 billion as of ...

Fidelity Investments is adding alternative investments to the custom model portfolios it makes available to its registered investment advisor and broker-dealer customers. The move brings together two ...

The Californian pension fund, known as Calpers, said Monday its new "total portfolio approach" will focus on which investments can boost the performance of its entire portfolio, rather than allocating ...