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1. | Year End Investment Ideas and Tax Strategies
First thing Monday morning I'm going to march into my boss's office and demand a pay cut so that I'll be in a lower tax bracket next year.
Of course that's ridiculous, but isn't it about the same as the financial community's "Conventional Wisdom" ...
[Added: 30 Nov 2006 Hits: 40 Words: 1062]
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2. | Variable Life Insurance & Annuities: Investment Scandals in Waiting
We humans are as creative on the "Dark Side" of commercial activity as we are in developing beneficial new products and services. In the face of huge financial benefits, however, some corporate executives can't resist taking an ...
[Added: 21 Oct 2006 Hits: 74 Words: 1050]
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3. | Asset Allocation Management Without Mutual Funds
Many Investment Gurus, with a straight face and a gleam in their eye, will insist that successful investing is a function of expansive research, skillful market timing, and detailed technical analysis. Others emphasize fundamental information about companies, industries, and markets. But trends and numbers are secondary to ...
[Added: 13 Sep 2006 Hits: 86 Words: 1103]
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4. | Solving Social Security: Fire the Politicians!
As an investor, I've always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What's so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so different from other investment accounts that pay out ...
[Added: 24 Aug 2006 Hits: 65 Words: 1023]
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5. | REITs and CEFs: The KISS Principal Applied to Real Estate
Real Estate investing is not nearly as legally complicated, financially burdensome, or time consuming as you might think. In fact, it is easy to add raw land, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and private homes to your portfolio without Brokers, Bankers, Attorneys, ...
[Added: 03 Aug 2006 Hits: 88 Words: 835]
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6. | Window Dressing: Wall Street's Investment "Circle of Gold".
As investors, and we all are investors these days, it is important that we understand the idiosyncrasies of the Stock Market pricing data we use to help us in our decision making efforts. On Wall Street, investing can be a minefield for ...
[Added: 07 Jul 2006 Hits: 135 Words: 1054]
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7. | Relax, A Volatile Stock Market Is Your Dearest Friend
Most people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first trading profit! But the $600 (1970 dollars) I pocketed on Royal Dutch Petroleum was not nearly as significant as the conceptual realization it signaled! I was amazed that someone would pay me that much more for my stock ...
[Added: 20 Jun 2006 Hits: 186 Words: 972]
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8. | In Value Stock Investing, Quality is Job One
How much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success? When do we learn that most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic expectations about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin ...
[Added: 09 Jun 2006 Hits: 104 Words: 1086]
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9. | The Dow Jones Industrial Average: Failing the Average Investor
In addition to a well thought out Investment Plan, successful Equity investing requires a feel for what is going on in the real world that we all refer to as "The Market". To most investors, the DJIA provides all of ...
[Added: 17 May 2006 Hits: 119 Words: 1079]
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10. | An Investor's View of The Fair Tax: A Resolution
The vast majority of Americans are investors, although many don't realize it. The vast majority of Americans are creative with their 1040 numbers, although most won't admit it. The majority of Americans would agree that investing, retirement planning, and estate ...
[Added: 14 Mar 2006 Hits: 58 Words: 1094]
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11. | Investment Strategy: The Investor's Creed
Fascinating, isn't it, this stock market of ours, with its unpredictability, promise, and unscripted daily drama! But individual investors are even more interesting. We've become the product of a media driven culture that must have ...
[Added: 27 Feb 2006 Hits: 72 Words: 1101]
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12. | The Case for Value Stock Investing...What If?
Wall Street Institutions pay billions of dollars annually to convince the investing public that their Economists, Investment Managers, and Analysts can predict future price movements in specific company shares and trends in the overall Stock Market. Such predictions ...
[Added: 26 Jan 2006 Hits: 62 Words: 747]
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13. | Investment Advisors 101… ask some questions.
Investment Advisors (IAs) come in all different intellectual, professional, and alphabetical varieties. They range in educational qualifications from High School dropout to PhD, and can be professional Accountants, Insurance Salesmen, Stock Brokers, Investment Managers, Dentists, Lawyers, TV personalities, and Gourmet Chefs. ...
[Added: 09 Jan 2006 Hits: 89 Words: 1046]
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14. | A New Wall Street Line Dance: Performance
It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can't know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections… even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market ...
[Added: 21 Dec 2005 Hits: 65 Words: 1709]
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15. | Managing the Income Portfolio
The reason people assume the risks of investing in the first place is the prospect of achieving a higher rate of return than is attainable in a risk free environment…i.e., an FDIC insured bank account. Risk comes in various forms, ...
[Added: 15 Dec 2005 Hits: 63 Words: 2024]
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