Would You Use a Robo-Advisor? Here’s What a Millennial Thinks
Have You Been Thinking About Getting Investing Help From a Robo-Advisor? 5 Reasons You Should By staff columnist, Alexandra Deluise
Should You Invest In An IPO?
No-You Shouldn’t Invest in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) Unless you’re willing to lose a lot of money. Are you upset you missed the Facebook IPO? Do you feel like a loser because you didn’t get in on Aliba? Investing In An IPO Isn’t Investing It’s speculating.
Larry Swedroe – Investing Luminary Tells How to Profit with Investing
Larry Swedroe’s Wisdom Helps Investors Profit with 2 Stage Thinking Following is an excerpt of my recent interview with Larry Swedroe. The full article is published on the U.S. News and World Report Smarter Investor Site: During this time of investment market turmoil, investors look to professionals for help in weathering the storm. Larry Swedroe, director of research for Buckingham and the BAM Alliance as well as the author of 13 investing books, offers insights and information to help cope …
Which Political Party is Best for Your Investments? + Investing Links
The presidential primaries are in full force with Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton looking like they will receive their respective party’s nominations. I’m going to go out on a limb and say, nothing is decided yet, at the beginning of March. But, don’t hold me to it, as it’s still early, and with Mitt Romney betting against Trump, anything is possible.
Is Passive – Index Fund Investing Over? Are Robo-Advisors Doomed?
Is There a Dark Cloud Hanging Above a Passive Index Fund Investing Approach? Most, although not all, of the robo-advisors practice some form of a passive index fund investing approach. This type of investing is based upon widely accepted and well researched investment practice that demonstrates that it’s extremely difficult for actively managed funds to beat the performance of the major market indexes such as the S&P 500 and others.
My Investments S*ck-What Should I Do?
2016 Investment Markets Don’t Look Good “The blue chips fell 276.09 points, or 1.6%, to 17148.94. The decline marked the worst first day of trading since 2008, and follows the first yearly fall for the Dow since 2008.” WSJ.com Okay, it’s 2 business days into 2016 and so far, the markets don’t look great. You’re thinking, “my investments s*ck”. On January 4th, the DOW dropped 1.6%, the S&P fell 1.5%, and the NASDAQ went down 2.1%. The next day, Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 the markets calmed dow…
Why You Should Invest in Index Funds
Find out Why You Should Invest in Index Funds Guest author, James Pollard I’ll cut straight to the chase; you should strongly consider investing index funds. Let me explain. I’ll start off with two investing truths which underscore why you should invest in index funds. First, stocks have historically given investors the highest return when compared to bonds, money market funds, etc. Second, diversification reduces the risk and volatility of your portfolio. If you tend to have a weak stomach f…
How to Invest Internationally Guide
Today, in Part 2-International Stock Investing Guidelines; How Much of My portfolio Should I Invest Internationally?, you’ll get direction in determining how much of your portfolio to allocate to international investments. The last section will show you how to invest in the entire world with one fund.
International Stock Investing Guidelines-Part 1
“What percentage of my stock investments, if any, should I allocate towards international stocks and emerging markets (the latter of which seems to have more volatility)?” asked Brian, of Luke 1428.com Brian asks an important investing question. There’s lots of discussion about the importance of diversification. All but the newest investors know about diversifying within your own country. And most of us understand that it’s important to diversify internationally. But how should you divide up …
An Investing Story With a Big Lesson
In investing, large gains and large losses go with the territory. Rarely do you know which investments will outperform and which ones will underperform. So, don’t judge your investing performance too frequently, either the good or the bad performers.