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U.S. investors seem fixated on the S&P 500 and the Dow, as if they’re the only indicators that matter, when discussing the stock market. “Oh boy, the Dow was down over 300 today!” is a common refrain. But investing is not a one-horse race; there are many other asset classes that are of interest. In [...]
Baby boomers who grew up listening to this Steve Miller song remember that it was about a guy who had cash, but couldn’t get a girlfriend, buy a Cadillac, or even get arrested. In reality, cash isn’t trash, but cash generally doesn’t belong in long-term investment portfolios, unless you are an avid investor trying to [...]
Some people think investing is all about picking the right stocks to “beat the market.” Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett are fabled stock pickers. Wall Street would certainly have you believe this notion because “beating the market” rings their register. And then investors are told that they should be diversified. Does that mean owning 30 [...]
Are you saving money to travel, buy things you want, help the charities and people you love, send kids to college, stop working, or just plain relax? If so, consult your favorite Wall Street broker, mutual fund, or become a stock picker yourself. Either way, within 20 years, say goodbye to 33 percent of your [...]
We all love stories in which failure breeds success: Michael Jordan being cut from his high school basketball team, Thomas Edison being told by a teacher that he was too stupid to learn, Marilyn Monroe being dropped by 20th Century Fox for being unattractive and unable to act. Such inspirational stories grace the pages of [...]
Over the past year or so, the four leading trading houses have offered a suite of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that trade for free. Schwab lead the charge by offering free trades on their ETFs. Vanguard, Fidelity, and TD Ameritrade followed suit with similar offerings. And now just this week, FocusShares entered the game by launching [...]
Have you ever met the crazy conspiracy theorist who is convinced that a well-executed and malevolent plot lurks behind most events? These were the people whose eyes bugged-out during Y2K, who are convinced that Apollo 11 never landed on the moon, that the World Trade Center was actually blown up by the United States to [...]
In the mid 1990s, exchange-traded funds came riding down Wall Street like Clint Eastwood in an old spaghetti western—fearless and ready to take on the bandits who had been terrorizing the townsfolk. For years prior to the arrival of ETFs, average investors were held hostage by obscene fees while mutual fund robbers brashly collected their [...]
Exchange Traded Funds, or ETFs, seem to be the latest investment fad. Heavily advertised by their sponsors, the number of available ETFs has grown from nearly 700 to over 1000 since we launched MarketRiders. The MarketRiders investment strategy is based upon research that show returns are predominantly determined by where your money is invested (your [...]
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin During Soviet era communism, citizen behavior was managed through a monopoly on information. It was the duty of the KGB to know all they could about information flow and to tightly control it. When Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Communist party, he recognized [...]
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