INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENT CONSTRUCTION: For Physicians and Medical Professionals

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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In order to create and monitor an investment portfolio for personal or institutional use, the physician executive, financial advisor, wealth manager, or healthcare institutional endowment fund manager, should ask three questions:

  1. How much do we have invested?
  2. How much did we make on our investments?
  3. How much risk did we take to get that rate of return?

Introduction to the IPS

Most doctors, and hospital endowment fund executives, know how much money they have invested.  If they don’t, they can add a few statements together to obtain a total. But, few can answers the questions above or actually know the rate of return achieved last year; or so far this year. Everyone can get this number by simply subtracting the ending balance from the beginning balance and dividing the difference.  But, few take the time to do it. Why? A typical response to the question is, “We’re doing fine.”

POOR DOCTORS: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2025/07/29/why-too-many-physician-colleagues-dont-get-rich/

Now, ask how much risk is in the portfolio and help is needed [risk adjusted rate of return]. In fact, Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz, Ph.D. said, “If you take more risk, you deserve more return.” Using standard deviation, he referred to the “variability of returns;” in other words, how much the portfolio goes up and down, its volatility [Markowitz, H: Portfolio Selection. Journal of Finance, March, 1952].

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RATE OF RETURN [RoR]: Investments 2022?

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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DEFINITION: A rate of return (RoR) is the net gain or loss of an investment over a specified time period, expressed as a percentage of the investment’s initial cost. When calculating the rate of return, you are determining the percentage change from the beginning of the period until the end.

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And so, according to Greg McBride CFA, before you invest your money, you’re likely wondering how much you’re going to earn. This is known as the rate of return. The rate of return is expressed as a percentage of the total amount you invested. If you invest $1,000 and get back your original investment plus an additional $100 in interest, you’ve earned a 10 percent return.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/082610254

However, numbers don’t always tell the full story. You’ll also need to think about how long you plan to keep the money invested, how your investment options have performed historically and how inflation will impact your bottom line.

Key return on investment statistics

When you’re trying to get the best return on your investment, you’ll likely start combing through loads of data. A good place to start is looking at the past decade of returns on some of the most common investments:

  • Average annual return on stocks: 16.63%
  • Average annual return on international stocks: 7.39%
  • Average annual return on bonds: 3.05%
  • Average annual return on gold: -0.21%
  • Average annual return on real estate: 11.72%
  • Average annual return on CDs: 0.40%

CD rate data is from internal Bankrate averages.

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ECONOMICS: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/from-real-estate-to-inflation-heres-what-to-expect-from-the-economy-in-2022/ar-AASbBHN?li=BBnb7Kz

MARKETS: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stock-market-outlook-were-going-to-get-an-explosion-to-the-upside-in-january-strategist-says/vi-AASbBih

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