Retirement Investing
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The Federal Reserve Chance of Recession Chart
A few days ago I linked to a chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that attempts to forecast recessions. The post I linked to asserted that the chart now indicates we have a 100% chance of a recession based on how the chart today compares with past performance. But it turns out […]
November 2012
November 30, 2012 04:40 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There’s still room available at my next free online investment presentation, but slots are filling up. I’ll try to make some sense and order of current economic and market issues and answer the question: How should you manage your portfolio in this environment? You […]
How Financial Crises Start
A number of people saw the problems that culminated in the financial crisis of 2008. They saw the problems clearly and early and predicted that bad things had to happen. Most of these people were way too early. See the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis for details. They predicted a calamity, but things […]
Should You Use 10-Year Average Earnings?
When people evaluate the stock market, they usually focus on whether the market is cheap or rich, and that usually focuses on earnings. But which earnings should you use? Conventional analysts tend to use projections for earnings over the next year. But some other analysts believe that’s a bad move. Forecasts of the next year’s […]
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Higher Investment Returns with Less Risk
One of the long-time top-performing funds in our “hedge fund” mutual fund portfolio is FPA Capital. For many years its met the goal of earning stock index-like returns with less risk and volatility. Manager Steve Romick made one of his rare public appearances this morning on CNBC. Romick explained how he does this by being […]
October 2012
October 26, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review The markets had bumpy rides the law few weeks. One cause of the market swings is earnings season. Investors should have been prepared for lower earnings and revenue because of the poor economic data since last spring. But they apparently were used to corporations […]
The Next Financial and Stock Market Crisis
The U.S. seems to have stabilized its financial crisis. Thanks to substantial Fed stimulus, the economy is settled into a low growth, low inflation path. Europe, after a lot of fits and starts, just might have stumbled on policies that will prevent a meltdown and duplicate the U.S. environment. Some investors believe that means we […]
September 2012
September 28, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review First, a scheduling note. I’ll be traveling next week and probably won’t post a weekly summary. There also will be light posting on my public blog. I’ll be back in full gear the week of Oct. 8. A number of events caused markets to […]
529 College Saving Plans
Active versus Passive Investing
Art and Collectibles Investing
Asset Allocation
Bear Market
Bonds and Tips
Bull Markets
Cash Management
Commodities
Cryptocurrencies
Diversification
Dividend Investing
Endowment Investing
ETFs
Financial Crisis
Global Markets
Emerging Markets
Gold and Silver
Hedge Funds
Index Investing
Interest Rates and the Yield Curve
Investing for Children and Grandchildren
Investing Strategies
MLP's
Momentum Investing
Mutual Funds
Passive Investing
Portfolios
Real Estate Investing
Risk Management
Shiller
Smart Beta
Stock Market Bubbles
Stock Market Crash
Stock Market Votality
Stock Markets and the Economy
Stock Valuations
Stocks
Value Investing
Warren Buffett
