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Monthly Archives: March 2008


Barron's Online – 3 Ways Investors Ruin Their Nesteggs

by Karen Hube Monday, March 17, 2008 These are scary times for investors trying to shore up their retirement portfolios. Stocks’ values are down, inflation is ticking up and home prices are sliding. But as investors nervously eye all that, they may be overlooking the biggest threat of all: themselves. “How you react to negative [...]

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Oil's Wakeup Call – Forbes Article 3/5/08

Martin T. Sosnoff Martin Sosnoff Oil at $100 a barrel is a wakeup call for investors and politicians alike. You can’t blame ExxonMobil for making $11 billion quarterly. Prices are set by the futures market, not in boardrooms or coffee houses in Riyadh. Normally, I avoid commodity plays, but I’ve joined the crowd. I despise [...]

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Can You Beat the Market? It's a $100 Billion Question

By MARK HULBERT Published: March 9, 2008 in the New York Times INVESTORS collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index [...]

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