Is Buy and Hold Finished? Read What Hulbert Says About Market Timing
Wall Street Journal, Mark Hulbert, and market timing investments.
The Top 7 Investing Mistakes to Avoid
The Top 7 Mistakes Investors Make Investing smartly can increase the likelihood of a prosperous and secure financial future. The problem? Many make costly investing mistakes — and often, repeat the same missteps, which prevents their wealth from growing as much as it could.
Investing Rule 1: Know Thyself
Yet, the anomaly rebuffs the efficient market theory and shows that small cap stocks and value stocks, over decades, tend to outperform the overall stock market.
Investing Analysis-Will Start-ups Save the Mall?
Current Investing Analysis What’s up With the Shopping Malls? I’ve been worried about the mall for a while now. Starting with the recession, housing bust, and mortgage meltdown in 2008-2009, the store vacancies in the local malls are growing. Even today, with a more prosperous economy, there are still vacancy pockets in the large and strip malls. And if shopping malls falter, so will investors. With the preponderance of available shopping venues, is the supply of bricks and mortar outlets out…
How to Measure Investment Risk & Protect Against it
Investing is Risky The Investments class I teach at a local university focuses on investing risk and return. We talk about the risk that you’ll lose money if you invest and your stock and bond funds decline in price. There’s also the risk that your purchasing power will erode from inflation. According to a recent Fortune-CNN article food prices increased 2.6% last year. Although, in my region, it seems as though the food increases were quite a bit more. Although the CPI (consumer price index)…
How to Invest and Get Rich (Slowly)
In talking with a book editor the other day, he explained to me that the best selling books were about trading options and market timing. He said, basic personal finance books were not selling well. I was so distressed with that information because basic and simple investing strategies lead to greater investment success than fancy market timing and trading strategies.
Is a 7% Future Long Term Return Achievable?
Wise asset classes allocations boost long term returns. A 7% long term return is possible.
Is Cash Investing Obsolete?
Cash Investing? A typical portfolio includes stock financial assets, bond type assets, and pinch of cash in its asset allocation. In
How to Cut Investing Fees + Increase Returns
Cut Investing Fees and Save Thousands I was pleased to receive this question important from Larry Russell an accomplished investor, software developer, financial planner and editor of The Skilled Investor Blog; “What should investors do once they understand that the financial industry takes over 1/3 of their gross investment returns every year, while it adds only a small fraction of that in value?” Not only is Larry asking this question, but so are many of my readers. If You’re Smart-You Can …
Why I Used to Invest in Individual Stocks + Now I Don’t
Recommended Investing and Money Articles and Links Many years ago, I was terrified of the stock market. I thought it would steal all of your money. With depression-era parents, the anecdotal information about the stock market crash of 1929 seemed frightening. I believed that you could lose all of your money if you invested in the stock market. I started investing in my 20’s with a traditional stock broker and various versions of bonds and bond funds (and 1 stock recommended by my cousin).