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Investing for beginners, as well as those more financially savvy, can oftentimes be a daunting task as there are many investment choices and unfortunately many schemes making promises that can’t be kept. As recently exposed in an article in InvestorsInsight.com ‘Record Year For Ponzi Schemes’ investors are oftentimes lured in by investment schemes that are just ‘too good to be true’. “It’s [...]
Asset Allocation is being mistaken form tactical allocation. “It’s the financial fantasy for a post-crash world: Wouldn’t life be grand if you could own one mutual fund that invested in domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, commodities and currencies, freely shifting investments among categories to take advantage of opportunities, and avoid meltdowns?” Well, [...]
There appears to be momentum gaining behind retirement portfolios adding exchange traded funds (ETFs) to their investing mix. As discussed in a recent article ETFs Make Inroads With 401(k) Investors, low cost ETFs are slowly making their way into many 401(k) plans. ”ETFs’ appeal is that they offer investors low costs and extra flexibility. Unlike open-end [...]
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 [...]
I saw a great post about retirement plans in CNN Money the other day by Walter Updegrave who is Money Magazine’s senior editor. He makes alot of suggestions about investing and retirement planning and I wanted to share them with you. He has 3 suggestions: 1. Take the saving decision out of your hands. People [...]
The famous professors at Yale have proven that asset allocation accounts for 90% of a portfolio’s return and that stock picking and market timing account for less than 10%. So what a great time to look at how different asset allocations are faring in this market! In 2008 it turns out that asset allocation decisions have [...]
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