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July 2014
Save the Date: Please join me at The MoneyShow San Francisco, this August 21-23! I’ll be making two presentations and always enjoy these opportunities to meet with some of my readers. There also will be dozens of other financial advisors making presentaitons. Get their latest stock picks, current market outlooks, most successful trading strategies and […]
The Shrinking Stock Market
Every investor should read this interview. It’s with Marc Andreeson, a well-known private equity or venture capital investor, especially in technology. The interview largely is devoted to explaining why fewer companies are listing their stock on public stock exchanges (going public) and why they are doing so later in their growth cycles than before. It’s […]
Millenials and the Stock Market
The generation named Millenials appears to have different attitudes toward investing and the stock market than previous generations. This article technically is about “robo-advisors” or computer-assisted investing, but it contains a lot of information about how cautious Millennials are about the stock market and how they don’t trust traditional financial advisors. As a result, they […]
Evaluating Estimates of Future Stock Market Returns
A number of analysts are estimating that investment returns over the next 10 years will be less than the long-term average, perhaps considerably less. They estimate annualized returns from stocks of 3% to 4% in many cases. Among the most prominent is John Hussman of the Hussman funds. This post pulls apart Hussman’s methodology and […]
Using Social Security Estimates with Caution
You can receive from the Social Security Administration an estimate of your retirement benefits. You can call, wait for an estimate to be mailed, or go online and use Social Security’s calculator. The estimates are helpful in retirement planning. But remember these are only estimates. They are based on a number of assumptions that might […]
June 2014
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Using Home Equity to Fund Retirement
Key changes recently were made in reverse mortgages. You should be aware of the changes and how they affect the way reverse mortgages can help in-crease your financial independence. Properly used, they are tools for employing home equity to enhance your retirement. The first change is that the Federal Housing Administration restructured the program again […]
Social Security Shortchanges Some Spouses
Spouses are losing thousands of dollars annually because Social Security is not paying the maximum payouts for which they are eligible. The Office of Inspector General of the Social Security Administration said in a recent report that about one-third of spouses ages 70 and older who had their own earnings records weren’t receiving their maximum […]
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