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Category Archives: ETFs & Index Funds


Assets Out of Management — Challenging 'Assets Under Management'

A few weeks ago BP CEO, Tony Hayward, felt the heat of America’s ire for his “I want my life back” gaffe. This week, BP Chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, may have out done him, commenting before Congress “BP cares about the small people”. After 11 deaths, destruction of Gulf fisheries and a local economy in shambles, [...]

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Lessons from BP — Look to ETFs for Portfolio Diversification and Market Efficiency

Americans today have various visceral feelings about British Petroleum (BP). Mostly, it conjures up pictures of oil-soaked creatures, executives sweating during their public flogging, government intervention, and ruined beaches. Aside from the tragedy, it reinforces two fundamental tenants of MarketRiders. First, stock prices can be random, and it’s best to protect yourself. Don’t learn this [...]

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How To Not Check Your Retirement Portfolio

There are different types of retirement investors and ultimately, different approaches to growing your money.  Some investors play the high stakes game of competing against the market itself. These investors have entered the largest poker tournament the world has to offer. And who has joined these gamblers at the table? Teams of the smartest minds, [...]

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How To Build Bob Pisani's CNBC Model ETF Portfolios With MarketRiders

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 [...]

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Mutual Fund Fee Analyzer — Reveals What You Pay For Your Mutual Funds

Check out this unique and powerful tool that for the first time allows you to comparison shop between nearly 14,000 mutual funds and their competitive ETFs. Those who have used this tool are seeing what we’ve been trying very hard to expose — mutual funds are 6 – 10 times more expensive than our recommended [...]

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Tips to Guide Your Investing Strategy

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 [...]

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Restore and Rethink Your Retirement Dreams by Reevaluating Your Retirement Portfolios

Below is a great check list for retirement planning that came my way courtesy of TIME magazine worth sharing as we take a second (or third) look at our retirement portfolio and wonder if it is on the right track to meet our retirement dreams.  Retirement Planning Rethink — and Restore — Your Retirement Dreams Get [...]

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From Warren Buffett: Advice Helpful for an IRA Rollover

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 [...]

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Resurrecting a Retirement Portfolio — Good Advice and A Warm Glass of Milk

Has your retirement portfolio – or lack there of- got you up at night? If so, consider reading an excellent round-up article by Jan Rosen of the New York Times ‘Now Is A Perfect Time to Reconstruct A Nest Egg‘ that provides an excellent primer on IRA investing. Even though many investors have been hit [...]

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Study Reveals Indexing Wins Again

For those that have taken to indexing over the last several years, we have John Bogle, pioneer of indexing and founder of The Vanguard Group and Vanguard index funds, to thank. A recent study by Standard & Poor’s revealed that “actively managed mutual funds beat their benchmark index in 2009. No surprise here: Just 39.2 [...]

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