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 news about the markets can do [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Barron’s Online – 3 Ways Investors Ruin Their Nesteggs
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Oil’s Wakeup Call – Forbes Article 3/5/08
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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 gold,
copper, iron ore, potash [...]
Can You Beat the Market? It’s a $100 Billion Question
Monday, March 3, 2008
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 fund. The huge
price tag helps explain [...]
