Category Archives: How Wall Street Makes Money

Behind Closed Doors – The Untold Story About Diversification

Have you ever been a part of one of those trusted conversations where you become privy to information that is so powerful it would disrupt the status quo?
Think of the conversations that occur behind closed doors at the White House, corporate boardrooms or U.S. Central Command. We all understand that there are elements of those [...]


An Option for Those Uncomfortable With Stock Picking

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 and [...]


How Wall Street Works And How To Protect Yourself

In one of this week’s articles Wall Street Journal writer Jason Zweig, reports that an investor, Philip Eberlin reportedly put 80% of his assets in CDs and fixed annuities because:  “I don’t have trust in Wall Street to help the small investor in any way, shape or form.”
Who or what is this bad, ugly beast [...]


How Wall Street Works

The veil over how Wall Street works is slowly being lifted.  Wall Street’s real mission isn’t to help you make what the markets return, rather it’s to keep your money in their control so they can use it to take some of those returns for themselves. No wonder Wall Street wages a constant propaganda machine to convince [...]


‘24′ Star Kiefer Sutherland Blows Up His Retirement Portfolio

The news about retirement portfolio investing this week has been a little light, so we start with the lighter side.  Kiefer Sutherland’s misfortune is not funny, but we’ve watched our hero in “24″ defy the odds of multiple life and death situations.  So it’s ironic that in real life, he too fell victim to an [...]


The Law of Compounding Makes Fees Quite Sizeable Over Time

Many do not flinch at paying 1-2% of their asset in fees to a financial advisor, but if one were to better understand the Law of Compounding one might look at 1-2% differently.  The Law of Compound Returns is a force of nature.  Simply put, the Law of Compound Returns says money left alone creates more money. [...]