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The Occupy Wall Street movement has become a topic of national discussion. Camped out in lower Manhattan for over a month, the protestors have spawned copycat events across the nation and abroad. While some identify with the frustration of youth trying to break into a job market that supplies a meager one job for every [...]
As uncouth as it may be, worrying about one’s investments seems to be the order of the day. And it’s no wonder. As the markets careen to and fro, publications are replete with stories of advisors and Wall Street pros dumping their stocks in favor or bonds and cash as they scurry to the sidelines. [...]
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 [...]
The renowned 70′s funk band, Tower of Power, raised the all-important question about “coolness” in their ’70′s hit “What is Hip?” “What is hip, tell me tell me if you think you know,” the band wailed, pondering a subject that grips many in our pop driven culture. How products, people, or ideas move from unknown to [...]
Just when we thought we were through hearing about the Wall Street hooligans and their criminal vices our “untouchable” friends at Goldman Sachs made the news twice. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the SEC has found criminal doings at Goldman. With one hand secretly cramming worthless mortgaged backed securities into their valued clients accounts, the [...]
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 [...]
Warren Buffett is our generation’s Benjamin Franklin, a humble billionaire full of great advice, quips and invaluable insights. While he never gives direct investment advice, one can gleen some helpful hints about investing in one’s IRA Rollover account. To paraphrase Warren, most investors should “do as I say, not as I do.” The world’s greatest [...]
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 [...]
Sam Mamudi of the Wall Street Journal deservingly poked money managers in the eye with his recent report on how such mangers underperformed indexes in both real and risk adjusted returns as revealed by a rigorous Morningstar study on the subject. As Mamundi states, “While it has been established that most actively managed mutual funds [...]
Market timing, a well known term learned in Investing 101, is exciting and can be quite profitable yet stock picking is oftentimes very fickle and given how the tide shifts over time is usually not best for one nearing retirement. For beginners to retirees that want to get in the game with owning stocks, buying a [...]
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