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Should You Be Holding Cash?
Mohammed El-Erian, formerly of PIMCO, stunned a few people when he announced recently that his portfolio primarily was in cash. I know a lot of small investors also are heavily weighted in cash, because they’re afraid of all the other investments. Here’s an analysis of why you don’t want to be 100% in cash in […]
Medicare Advantage Plans Receive a Boost
Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare Advantage plans are supposed to be made less attractive. The government is supposed to reduce the amount the plans receive per enrollee. But that hasn’t happened. The plans are very popular, enrolling about 30% of Medicare beneficiaries and rising. For the third year in a row the government announced […]
Some Fallacies of the S&P 500
This post notes that the S&P 500 wasn’t always capitalization weighted. Until 1988 it was structured much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average but with more companies. There are a lot of thoughts that can spring from that information. One of them is that index investing isn’t really passive investing. It’s true that most active […]
Diversification, De-Risking and Other Thoughts
Investors are very nervous about owning stocks these days, but they also don’t want to miss out on a continuation of the bull market. If that describes you, and you’re not sure what to do, consider this article. It’s written primarily for institutional investors (pension funds and such) and might seem to ramble a bit. […]
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The Latest Changes in Home Care for Seniors
These changes aren’t coming from the government or insurers but from the technology geeks. A group of them believes that some innovations in other industries will improve things and lower costs in home care, according to this piece. They say their goal is to keep their parents in their homes for as long as possible. […]
The New Rules of Retirement
Retirement and retirement planning are changing. They were changing before the bear market of 2000-2002, the recession of 2001, and before Sept. 11, 2001. Significant trends were already afoot that changed many aspects of retirement and retirement planning: the cost of retirement, pensions, health care, housing, the financial markets, estate planning, tax planning, and many […]
Invest Like a Fox… Not Like a Hedgehog
Why has there been a series of bubbles in technology stocks, home prices, financial stocks, and commodities? How can investors spot such bubbles and invest to avoid large losses and even profit from them? What causes long-term bull and bear markets? Why do successful investment strategies and signals suddenly stop working? Why do most investors […]
Personal Finance After 50 For Dummies
Here’s the latest and most comprehensive retirement financial planning guide. All the key financial issues of retirement are answered: How will you pay for retirement medical expenses? When should you begin Social Security benefits? When should you retire? How do you ensure you won’t run out of money in retirement? Should you buy long-term care […]
