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According to a recent survey by AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, preliminary findings indicate fewer than two in 10 Americans are confident of their ability to invest in the stock market, although 60 percent still believe equities are important in a portfolio. With such a huge gap between those feeling comfortable investing in stocks themselves [...]
If you don’t already have your television set to record Jean Chatzky’s Money 911 segment on NBC’s TODAY Show, you might want to as she continues to speak about timely financial topics that are presented in a very straightforward manner, as recently done in an article about retirement plans and investing options. For years, my husband [...]
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote an article ‘Will We Ever Again Trust Wall Street?’ that brilliantly steers one to consider employing a buy and hold investment strategy over an actively managed portfolio. “Buying and holding a diversified stock portfolio still makes sense. Paradoxically, as fewer people cling to their faith in [...]
When evaluating your investment choices and trying to understand ‘what is an ETF?’ it is in your best interest to read a recent article in USAToday ‘Is an ETF the right investment for you? Look beyond the hype’that defines exchange traded funds and warns investors on types of ETFs to steer clear of. For those [...]
As John Spence of MarketWatch recently writes, ”Online brokers are fighting hard for a greater share of the fast-growing exchange-traded fund business, and investors stand to benefit from lower costs.” His article ‘Big brokers cut commissions to draw ETF assets, trading — Fidelity, Schwab waive fees as competition heats up; investors reap lower costs’ documents the [...]
Perhaps the typical 2% management fees charged by mutual funds and financial advisers don’t look too damaging at first glance-especially if you believe the managers will deliver on their market beating promises. But because of the Law of Compounding, taxes and fees paid to Wall Street to “beat the market” will compound over time and [...]
In one of this week’s articles Wall Street Journal writer Jason Zweig, reports that an investor, Philip Eberlin reportedly put 80% of his assets in CDs and fixed annuities because: “I don’t have trust in Wall Street to help the small investor in any way, shape or form.” Who or what is this bad, ugly [...]
The veil over how Wall Street works is slowly being lifted. Wall Street’s real mission isn’t to help you make what the markets return, rather it’s to keep your money in their control so they can use it to take some of those returns for themselves. No wonder Wall Street wages a constant propaganda machine to convince [...]
We were honored that Rob Silverblatt at U.S. News & World Report listened to us and rigorously dug deep with us into the powerful secret of event based rebalancing over traditional quarterly or annual rebalancing. He questioned our numbers and assumptions and did a great job describing the issue. Finally someone is helping us make [...]
The news about retirement portfolio investing this week has been a little light, so we start with the lighter side. Kiefer Sutherland’s misfortune is not funny, but we’ve watched our hero in “24″ defy the odds of multiple life and death situations. So it’s ironic that in real life, he too fell victim to an [...]
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