Where you invest is important, but so is how you invest. Over time, where you invest is likely to deliver you winners and losers. No investor has a perfect record.…
Plan for Retirement on Your First Day of Work
At age 21, most people are just beginning their careers. They would be wise to think about retirement at the same time. Contributions to 401(k) plans, IRAs and other retirement…
How To Retire Early – Part One
How would you like to retire early? Maybe 62 is a good age or maybe you’d like to retire at 60 or even 55. But unless you’ve won the lottery,…
Attention Deficit Capitalism
“Democracy would not be democracy, rule of the people, without at least a modicum of political attention and activity from its citizens.” …
Getting Your Bond Portfolio in Shape for 2014
It’s time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. It’s an American tradition to resolve to lose weight, exercise regularly, be nicer, work harder and give up everything you enjoy.…
September Is the Cruelest Month
Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September. …
Investors Are Back … So Expect a Correction
Individual investors are moving in. And the smart money is moving out. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushing past 14,000, individual investors jumped back into the stock market, it…
Healthcare For All – Like it Or Not
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Constitutionality of Obamacare by a 5-4 vote will mean different things to different people. Even its impact on healthcare companies will vary. …
“Buy and Hold” Is NOT “Still A Winner”
Investors are being advised by Princeton Professor Burton G. Malkiel (“ ‘Buy and Hold’ Is Still A Winner”) to hang in there, even when the market drops 60% of its…
When Good News Is Bad News
Sometimes investment managers live in Bizzaro world, the place in the old Superman comics where everything is the opposite of what logic would dictate. A case in point is the…