Retirement Investing
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The Classics: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Half a league half a league Half a league onward All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: `Forward the Light Brigade Charge for the guns’ he said Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred `Forward the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier […]
Investing Your IRA in Gold, Real Estate, and More
IRA Investment Guide: A Road Map for Avoiding the Traps and Penalties for IRA Investments Which assets are allowed, and which aren’t You’re supposed to diversify your investment portfolio. You want to protect it from bear markets, inflation, deflation, and more. What many IRA investors don’t know is Congress and the IRS built obstacles on […]
Thoughts of a Silicon Valley Insider on Technology Investing
A leading venture capitalist gave an interview to Vanity Fair in which he gave his insights on some past experiences and the current state of technology investing. He’s not very positive about many of the young technology companies that are receiving financing or going public these days. Most companies in e-commerce right now are negative-gross-margin […]
How the Fed Helped Cause the Financial Crisis
John Taylor of Stanford has been a leading critic of the Fed’s role in creating the financial crisis and its actions afterward. In this blog post he summarizes the arguments against the Fed, including links to important research from others that pin a lot of responsibility on the Fed’s loose money before 2007. Of course […]
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A Case for Investing in Emerging Markets
Emerging market stocks, bonds, and currencies have had a tough time the last few years. Many investors don’t want them anywhere near their portfolios after the big losses. But perhaps this is the time to be adding them to your portfolio. This blog post makes the case for adding emerging market equities to your portfolio […]
Will Smart Beta Investing Crash?
Smart beta is an investment strategy that’s become very popular in recent years. It’s a twist on index investing. The investor starts with an index but tweaks the stock allocations so that they are weighted by something other than capitalization. There are many variants of smart beta, and it is estimated that one out of […]
A Rally or a New Bull Market?
Most investment assets hit bottoms around February 11 after dreadful starts to the year. Is everything okay now, or is this what’s known as a countertrend rally? This article from Ben Hunt of Salient Partners argues that it’s a temporary rally, what he calls an investable rally. Central banks are taking a break in their […]
The Dangers of Index Investing
This article reviews a number of articles that researched effects index investing might have on companies, the economy, and others. It found evidence that index investing can make it more difficult to manage companies, hurt consumers, and cause other secondary effects that weren’t anticipated by the investors and don’t receive much discussion. Another group of […]
