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Image via WikipediaKeep It Simple, Says Yale’s Top Investor - New York TimesBy GERALDINE FABRIKANTPublished: February 17, 2008IT has been a time to worry even the savviest investors. The c …
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Image via WikipediaWhen you want to begin to invest, you must first be honest with yourself and do a risk profile test. Usually, the risk profiling will be a series of questions to illicit your degree of risk aversion, investment timeframe(horizon) and goals. However, that is only a generic question and is meant to get you started in a generic big picture portfolio …
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Image via WikipediaWhile a buy and hold strategy for equities is advocated by many financial advisors or even gurus, they are using timeframe of investment as a basis for making that argument. Usually, the time frame they are talking about is 15 years onwards as historical returns have shown in the long run, equities do outperform bonds and other asset classes and it averages …
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“Even the pros may be stuffing the mattresses”Gail MarksJarvisChicago Tribune, July 29, 2008Marc Faber, Jeremy Grantham Warn Of Global BubbleMoney managers from around the world gathered i …
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Image via WikipediaYou have heard stories of traders or punters made good by investing all their money into 1 stock and newspaper stories proclaiming how a trader can turn $1,000 into $100,000 in 1 month or even having 1000% return on investment.For a beginner to investment, they might be convinced that the only way to get rich is to have concentrated bets. However, that is …
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The ETF Parade Keeps Marching On - Articles - On Wall StreetThe ETF Parade Keeps Marching OnBy Elizabeth WineAugust 1, 2008¦AdvertisementClick here to find out more!Riding the wave of inve …
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Wizard of WhartonThe “Wizard of Wharton’s” Favorite Ratio for Evaluating Stocksby Floyd G. Brown, Advisory Panelist, Investment UWednesday, July 16, 2008: Issue # 821Thre …
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Why am I now 60% in liquidity for my investment portfolio? The reason is that I take a view that the market is poised for a plunge.That's why I should just stay on the sidelines but not be totally out of the market. I'm lazy so if I'm out of the market, I will not be so diligent in reading news or keeping up. So, you won't have a sense of what's going on. And when sentiments …
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Commodities seem highly volatile at the near-term and a long-only strategy in mutual funds/unit trusts like Schroder SAS Commodity and Agriculture might not be an optimal solution.Thus, I have decided to switch into Permal Natural Resources as it is a multi-strategy fund which is good for volatile times.Hedge funds are great in times of volatility and depressed markets. …
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Steve Sjuggerud’s Daily WealthBy Dr. Steve SjuggerudJanuary 2008In recent years, one of my biggest investment obsessions has been land. And with good reason… According to a recent S&P report, a $10,000 investment in timberland returned $159,000 over the last 20 years. That’s nearly twice the return of the stock market.S&P recently launched a new …
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Commentary:-The portfolio returned -0.62% for the month of July.Due to the ongoing volatility, it is safer to take profit and have 60% liquidity which consists of cash, money-market and short-term instruments.I will cost averaged back into the market when the volatility is not so large.
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Stocks for the Long RunStocks for the Long Run: 7 Market Conclusions from Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegelby Mark Skousen, Advisory Panelist, Investment UI’ve met a lot of investment gurus over the years, but no one has impressed me more than Jeremy Siegel, known as the “Wizard of Wharton.” He’s an absolute genius in assembling financial ...
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Analysts are Toxic to your Portfolio… 3 Ways To Do Their Job BetterThree Ways to Beat Analysts at Their Own Jobby Floyd G. Brown, Advisory PanelistDear Investment U Reader,If we only had a …
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Professional AdviserFidelity: dividends more reliable than share price risesby Charlotte Banks Tuesday 22nd July 2008: 13:12Growth in dividend payments is far more reliable than rises in share prices, according to analysis by Fidelity International.The research found that dividend payments from the UK market have shown an annual increase in all but five years since the ...
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My friend emailed me this and i found it very funny and couldn’t help but want to share it with you guys! Happy weekends!Dear Prim@ Minist@r,We citizens of Singapore urge you to PLEASE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.We DO NOT NEED your help. Every time, you mention HELP, we have to runFor cover!!!Help the poor? Raise ...
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“You should avoid buying a new whole life, endowment or investment-linked policy as thecharges are too high. It is better to buy term insurance for your insurance protection and tinvest in …
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CNBC Stock Blog - Airline Stocks - CNBC Stock Blog - CNBC.comRecommendations:So what does the investor like?Rogers said he was investing in airlines, which have seen tough times due to soaring fuel costs — and fears of further increases in oil prices.“I am buying airlines. If you fly a lot, you’ll see that you can’t ...
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Investorazzi.com » Blog Archive » Mark Mobius Shares Outlook For U.S. And Emerging MarketsMark Mobius Shares Outlook For U.S. And Emerging MarketsPosted Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am …
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CNBC: Interviews Nouriel Roubini On US Economy’s Future « Meandering MatrixInterview on CNBC and Rising Estimates of Credit Losses from the Financial Crisis Now Up to $1.6 TrillionNouriel …
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Our Investment Director, Albert Lam has contributed an article to The Business Times, Executive Money section.In this article, Albert discussed the current gloom in the financial markets, …
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