Retirement Secrets You Need to Know Immediately
As far back as I can remember I was the designated keeper of financial secrets for my parents If I happened to be with my father when he bought something he knew my mother would disapprove of, he’d...
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As far back as I can remember I was the designated keeper of financial secrets for my parents If I happened to be with my father when he bought something he knew my mother would disapprove of, he’d...
The cryptocurrency bitcoin has been increasing in popularity the last few years Many people are heralding it as the future of currency: more stable than the dollar, and able to be used...
image: while the concept may be humorous, the damage to your future security caused by failing to diversify is very real One of the real tragedies of the 2001 Enron debacle was how many loyal...
Every so often, financial advisors stress how important it is for investors to hold cash instead of jumping into the markets The intensity of their recommendation and the amount of cash they...
You aren’t going to want to hear this, but you’ll be glad you know it If you were going to design a poor quality asset, a really, really bad one, it wouldn’t be that hard First, you’d...
Gold and Stocks – The Best of Enemies It’s a well-known axiom in the financial marketplace: Stocks and gold travel in opposite directions When one is up, the other’s down and vice versa The...
Much of the compensation corporate executives receive comes from stock and options That compensation mix is intended to align the interests of the executives with the interests of the company’s...
I haven’t seen any news on the topic, but I’ll venture to guess the best job in the world right now is that of a bond salesman And you know life is good if you’re a bond salesman with only one...
Lord Rothschild, distinguished investment banker and chairman of the three-billion-pound Rothschild Investment Trust, has informed shareholders of a major financial decision He has substantially...
Wealthy investors are stockpiling cash at levels we haven’t seen since 2001, in the wake of the Dot Com crash The cash slush pile is larger even than in 2008 when investors fled the market during...
Oil prices have been on a generally downward slope since 2014 Prices may rise and fall in the short term, but for the long haul, they’re getting progressively lower In fact, earlier this month oil...
Is there a place in our portfolios for both stocks and gold Does investing in one preclude investing in the other Ordinarily, according to Wall Street wisdom, you just might be a crackpot if you...
Some presidential campaigns have been nastier than others But during the particularly ugly ones we invariably hear talk that this is the worst yet, and how we’re moving closer to the final hour of...
It’s one of the peculiarities of the world that rising oil and gold prices are contrary indicators for the economy, but that correlation is pretty long-standing The strange part about this...
Even if you follow the mainstream financial news only occasionally, you’ll realize how much is made of exchange-traded funds, known as ETFs, these days ETFs have been around since 1989; the...
There was a time when saying something was as safe as “money in the bank” meant it was the soundest of all possible investments You don’t often hear that line these days, and for good reason...
In 2016, we’ve seen gold flourish as a safe haven for investors fleeing stock market uncertainty, global debt and deflation and the anxiety-induced currency fluctuations kindled by Brexit All told,...
Throughout the history of investing, market crashes have always come as a surprise The interesting thing about those surprise turnarounds is that, in hindsight, they were pretty obvious Anyone in...
Anyone in high school today is old enough to have memories of the last banking crisis Maybe those memories include helping pack up their room in the big house in the suburbs because the family had to...
On June 23 the UK elected to abandon the European Union (EU) in what can be characterized as a 52% to 48% squeaker Emotional reactions to the event have ranged from giddy triumph in more rural,...
In the old days if you worked hard, kept out of trouble and saved a little money, you’d end up doing all right in life It was a simple formula, and for the most part it worked Today those simple...