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Several years ago, our firm retained Miller McMillian, a copywriter, to help us with our website. Little did we know, he began investing using the methods we’ve been espousing in our newsletters and blogs. He asked if he could share his experiences. First of all, I am not a professional stock picker. I am an [...]
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 [...]
While the über wealthy use exotic tax strategies to exploit esoteric loopholes, the everyday investor has one great tax trick available in the form of exchange-traded funds. ETFs offer a type of modern-day tax miracle. Sure, when it comes to capital gains from the sale of an ETF, investors must give Uncle Sam his slice [...]
Nearly every retirement portfolio should contain real estate holdings. Sophisticated investors hold diversified real estate portfolios that can include portions of office buildings, apartments, industrial warehouses, retail centers, and shopping malls both in the United States and internationally. Owning real estate has its own set of risks and benefits. A property that is well-located and [...]
All MarketRiders portfolios include exposure to emerging market stocks. We want to explain more about this asset class. Stocks in companies in the 20 or so nations included in the popular MSCI Emerging Markets index are dominated by Asia (predominantly Taiwan and Korea) at more than 50 percent, Latin America (20 percent), Africa and the [...]
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 [...]
In order to build Bob Pisani’s ETF portfolios with MarketRiders, follow these easy steps: 1. Sign up for a MarketRiders 30 day Free Trial. There is a “sign-up” link on the top right of www.marketriders.com. 2. You will be asked to create your first portfolio and you’ll have 2 options: “Build It For Me” and [...]
Tips to help guide investors on their investing strategy run the gamut from how-to build a low-cost ETF portfolio, to how-to construct the proper asset allocation with diversification suited to your financial needs, to how rebalancing a portfolio can maximize returns. A few other noteworthy tips that surfaced recently are highlighted below. I hope they [...]
The Supreme Court finally examined the problem with mutual funds with regards to their fees. The result – not much protection for the average retirement investor. The Court decided to rule against further legislation and to keep the onus of fee due diligence on investors. You can imagine that the $11 trillion mutual fund industry [...]
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