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February 2013
February 22, 2013 04:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review A couple of factors were at work in the markets this week. After opening the year with seven weeks of gains, including the strongest January since 1997, many investors were looking for a reason to sell. They got it with the release of the […]
Turning Investment on its Head by Robert Haugen
You have to take more risk to achieve a higher return. That’s one of the great investment myths, and it’s widely believed. We recently lost the man who almost singlehandedly fought to expose this as a myth through research. Robert Haugen passed away at age 70. Here’s a fine tribute that discusses his best contributions. […]
January 2013
January 25, 2013 04:40 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There were a few conflicts in the headlines that kept investors from moving strongly in either direction. The positive news was a decision by House Republicans to extend the debt ceiling for three months with no conditions other than a requirement that the Senate […]
The Expanding Asset Bubble in Art and Collectibles
Recently I was talking to a friend who spends a lot of time with wealthy people, primarily trying to raise money from them. He said that when he asks them what they’re doing with their money these days, many saying their eschewing financial assets (stocks and bonds) and buying things: land, timber, art, wine, etc. […]
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Is the Commodities Bull Market Over?
The commodities bull market has rolled on for a while, and some former bulls now are saying the super-cycle is over. They believe commodities have a fairly fixed cycle, and this one has run its course. Pushing back against that view, among others, is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph. You should read the whole […]
December 2012
December 21, 2012 04:55 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m looking forward to the upcoming holidays and hope you are, too. Absent some significant event, I plan to take next week off. There’s won’t be a weekly Retirement Money Memo. I’ll be back the following week to start off the new year. Another […]
Your Favorite Investment and Stock Market Valuation Indicator
Investors continue to seek the economic or market indicator that tells them when to buy and sell stocks. I spend some time in my book Invest Like a Fox…Not Like a Hedgehog discussing this phenomenon and why it doesn’t work. At a minimum, you need to look at multiple indicators, not only one data point. […]
Does Technical Trading Work?
An interesting profile appeared over the holidays in both Bloomberg and The Washington Post of Tom DeMark. He’s a little-known head of a research firm that provides technical trading data to big investors, such as hedge fund SAC Capital. DeMark’s expertise is known as technical trading. Technical trading ignores fundamentals. Instead, trades are based on […]
