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Inflation is a sneaky pickpocket that slinks into your wallet in the form of higher prices on food, gas and other necessities, quietly robbing you of wealth. It’s the invisible tax or the hole in your water bucket. Because of this, investors are becoming increasingly attentive to the evolving inflation story. What many investors don’t [...]
While Freud’s 1908 theory of penis envy has been wrought with controversy for over a century, financial sciences have clearly demonstrated that when it comes to money management, most men should have a serious case of portfolio envy. As some men like to take pride in bringing home the bacon, this realization could be quite [...]
As a young child I had an ongoing battle with my mother over eating my peas. It may have related to the fact that the peas she served came from the Del Monte can, pale and overcooked, or possibly from the ubiquitous childhood disdain for anything green. Whatever the reason, the peas had to be [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Just when we thought we were through hearing about the Wall Street hooligans and their criminal vices our “untouchable” friends at Goldman Sachs made the news twice. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the SEC has found criminal doings at Goldman. With one hand secretly cramming worthless mortgaged backed securities into their valued clients accounts, the [...]
We were honored that Rob Silverblatt at U.S. News & World Report listened to us and rigorously dug deep with us into the powerful secret of event based rebalancing over traditional quarterly or annual rebalancing. He questioned our numbers and assumptions and did a great job describing the issue. Finally someone is helping us make [...]
As you review your returns for the last year, and possibly the last decade, you may agree that retirement investing was dealt a hard blow; what you may not be aware of is how portfolio rebalancing made great efforts to lessen one’s losses. Allan Roth of CBS MoneyWatch gave some noteworthy advice for the next [...]
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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