Contributed by fg | April 14, 2005 05:12 PM PST
Some great free advice is available from money managers Grantham, Mayer, Van Otterloo (GMO). If you register (free!) at their website, you can view some expert (if sparse) commentary and also 7 year asset class forecasts (updated quarterly). Their predictions for US large cap stocks and bonds, REITS, emerging market stocks and bonds and other asset classes are excellent food for thought for anyone with investible assets.
One of Grantham's perenial favorite investment classes is timber. Right now they are pretty negative on US stocks and make a pretty compelling case why it's much more likely that the S&P 500 will go down or stay flat than go up.mortgage calculator 
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