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Category Archives: Investment Software


Are Commission-Free ETFs Worth It?

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 [...]

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How Did Your Portfolio Perform?– Understanding Risk and Diversification

In competitive pursuits, there are established and transparent measurement systems to determine not just performance but how performance is achieved. In professional sports, a variety of statistics are used to compare individual and team performance. Everyone from team managers to owners to bookies use these common statistics. And because the statistics don’t like, there is [...]

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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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I Believe, But Help Me In My Unbelief — Dealing With Market Volatility

A man having a religious crisis of faith initially spoke the famous words of this blogs subject line. He was acknowledging that with tough decisions, there is a continuum, not a simple yes or no answer. You can have conviction, but circumstances come along that challenge it’s depth. Similarly with such market volatility in recent [...]

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Retirement Planning Is Essential to Retire Rich

Retirement planning is a subject full of irony: the younger you are when you start investing for it, the more likely it is that you’ll retire with plenty. But when we’re young, we tend to care the least about retirement.  Most people under 40 years old don’t even think much about it. Life has more [...]

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Burned Investors Turned to Investment Software in 2009

A recent article ‘Burned Investors Watch Money Closely in ’09′  revealed how many investors turned to investment software in 2009 as “many became more hands-on with their money and open to alternatives that go beyond traditional stock plays”.  Thanks to a host of powerful online tools, burned investors turned away from their traditional financial management professionals and [...]

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