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How To Build Your Own Energy Portfolio
Oil prices recently broke $100 a barrel and the stock market tanked. Last week, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke proclaimed that increasing commodity prices could negatively impact the U.S. recovery. … Read more
Analysis Paralysis: 3 Ways Investors Can Break Free
Since March 2, 2009, a significant investor demographic has sat frozen on the sidelines while the S&P 500 has soared skyward by more than 95 percent. To get a sense … Read more
Why 1 Billion IQ Points Know More Than You
“Nobody knows nothing” is a statement made by screenwriter William Goldman about the movie business. He meant that even after making movies for more than 100 years, no one actually … Read more
You Might Not Have 'Beat The Market' in 2010
Retirement investors who want investment advice are faced with two basic choices: pay high fees for professional mutual fund managers to beat the market (called “active” investing) or buy low-fee … Read more
One Way To Fight Inflation
In January 1997, the U.S. government began issuing a new type of bond: Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). TIPS are a separate asset class that’s distinct from bonds because they … Read more
Portfolio Envy-Why Her Portfolio is Bigger Than His
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 … Read more
Where Portfolio Returns Really Come From
Here is a shocking fact: Asset allocation, the idea of spreading one’s money into different buckets or asset classes, accounts for 90% of a portfolio’s return over time. This leaves … Read more
Lessons from BP — Look to ETFs for Portfolio Diversification and Market Efficiency
Americans today have various visceral feelings about British Petroleum (BP). Mostly, it conjures up pictures of oil-soaked creatures, executives sweating during their public flogging, government intervention, and ruined beaches. Aside … Read more
A Litmus Test…Is Your Asset Allocation Right?
Like a volcano, markets go through phases: they do very little and then suddenly they spit fiery lava. With new problems being introduced each day, be it Greek debt or … Read more
The big drop – did you yawn or did you freak?
On May 6th of last week, the markets shocked the world with a never-seen-before event – a 1000-point drop in a mere sixteen short minutes. During those brief moments and … Read more