There are some who try to time the market, and there are others who just sit back and let market forces do all the work. There are those that argue out performing index funds is impossible, and there are a handful that says the opposite. I am an active investor, so you know which camp [...]
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At some point in our investing career, we all make the mistake of thinking about how much money we used to have. Whether it’s how much our whole account was worth or just the price of the stock when we purchased it, we let the past affect our decisions. If at all possible, stop doing [...]
I was reading this month’s Money magazine that featured Julia Andres, a 58 year old sales executive. In 2000, she had about $775,000 in her retirement savings pretty much all invested in Citigroup because she worked there for around 20 years. She basically lost 50% of everything she had by 2002 because of the tech [...]
A hedge fund is a largely unregulated private investment fund that uses any available investing strategies to increase returns. It is common for the fund managers to have leveraged long and short positions in both domestic and foreign markets. The theory is that the freedom allows hedge funds to have a positive return when the [...]
The Bernie Madoff scandal is a sad case of the lack of care by the investing public. It’s amazing that so many sophisticated investors just handed money to this man without thinking about doing any due diligence. It’s understandable for average citizens as they lack the expertise to decipher the often complex documents and investment [...]
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