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Remember Yahoo, Gordo. It’s like Abracadabra. In the time travel movie Frequency, this Yahoo stock tip was passed through time to the six-year-old Gordo via a mysterious interplay of a ham radio and the aurora borealis. This small bit of incomprehensible information was not only retained by Gordo, but later, when he grew up and [...]
Have your heard this old tale? During a flood, a kind-hearted frog lets a scorpion ride to safety on his back. But, just as they reach the middle of the river, the scorpion stings the frog. As they both sink beneath the waves, the frog asks, “Why did you sting me?” “It’s my nature,” says [...]
There’ s a gland that must be in the body that doctors have never found. But we know it is there. We call it the “ greed gland.” Wikipedia says a gland is an “ organ in an animal’s body that synthesizes a substance for release such as hormones… often into the bloodstream or into [...]
When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in September 2008, most investors faced a question they had never considered: Is my money safe with my broker? What happened to Lehman brokerage accounts, and what makes one broker like Fidelity safer than another? To get to the bottom of this question, I caught up with Michael Hogan, CEO [...]
The bestselling book “Freakonomics” chronicles the search for the hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior. It characterizes the field of economics as the study of incentives – how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. “Freakonomics” gives entertaining examples of how odd results can [...]
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 [...]
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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