25th July 2006
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So much of what you hear in the financial press these days is so wrong, that one must consider most financial television and print to be strictly for entertainment purposes only. In this article, we're going to examine m...
13th July 2006
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Modern Portfolio Theory altered the investment landscape forever when it was introduced in the 1950s by Nobel Prize winning economist Harry Markowitz.
Virtually every financial planner and money manager touts its tenet...
12th July 2006
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In today's sophisticated investment world, investors now have the opportunity to double the performance of the major stock market indexes by using the enhanced index mutual fund offerings of two families of mutual funds, ...
25th June 2006
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Many investors still don't know about Exchange Traded Funds (or ETFs) and their advantages over traditional mutual funds. In this article, we'll examine Exchange Traded Funds, their history, performance and advantages an...
23rd June 2006
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No matter what investment discipline you use, there are three important variables for measuring your success - peak-to-valley drawdown, beta, reward/risk ratio. The first and most important factor is your measure of risk....
23rd June 2006
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So much of what you hear in the financial press these days is so wrong, that one must consider most financial television and print to be strictly for entertainment purposes only. In this article, we're going to examine o...
23rd June 2006
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Approximately 75% of fund managers do not beat the S&P 500 year in and year out. How can a basket of 500 hundred stocks beat the majority of actively managed mutual funds? The people who manage these funds are, for the mo...
22nd June 2006
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America is heading for a train wreck.
Everyone knows it's coming, but no one is doing anything about it. As an individual, you can wait and hope the inevitable doesn't happen, or you can prepare yourself and your fina...
18th June 2006
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When someone tells you that the dam is breaking, do you just stand there and get washed away by the floodwaters? Why does the professional management industry give you that advice for managing your retirement? Why did tri...
18th June 2006
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It's important that you understand the impact that a bear market has on your capital. The give and take of your investment capital is not equal. If you placed $100 into an investment and it declined 50% to $50, what is th...
16th June 2006
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Much has been written about the virtues and dangers of active stock market trading, or "market timing."
Most of the pundits and so called "experts" will tell you that stock market timing doesn't work, that it's dangero...
