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How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators

11th July 2009
Before Wall Street and the media combined to make investors think of calendar quarters as "short-term" and single years as "long-term", market cycles were used as true tests of investment strategies over the long haul. Bor-ing. There were four types o... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Equity Index Universal Life Explained

28th June 2009
What is equity index universal life insurance? Equity index universal life (EIUL) is an insurance product in which most of its premium – usually between 80 percent and 90 percent – are invested in traditional fixed income securities. The rest of the p... Read >
Author: Steven Hart

Bond Market

27th June 2009
Bond is a security issued by a borrower that requires the issuer to make specified payments to a holder over a particular period. Bonds are rated based on the financial status of the issuer of the bond. Bonds are known as "fixed-income" securities because... Read >
Author: indianmoney

Who Created The Financial Crisis - How And Why

27th March 2009
"The Big Takeover" by Matt Taibbi is probably the best article written to date explaining the financial crisis and how we got to where we are now. Taibbi's necessarily lengthy article explains the problems, names the "poipetrators", and exposes all of the... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Types of Mutual Funds

30th January 2009
There are many types of mutual funds available in the market but only four can be found in the Philippines, and these are: stock or equity funds, bond funds, balanced funds, and money market funds. * Stock or Equity Funds. Stock or Equity Funds p... Read >
Author: arcel

Why CMOs May Be Considered For Private Trading Programs

28th January 2009
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) sometimes referred to as Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICs), are one of few innovative investment methods available in today's investment world. CMOs offer relative safety, regular payments and no... Read >
Author: Marcel Ford

Crisis Investing - A Three-Pronged WCM Strategy

21st January 2009
One of the great things about being a professional investor is the opportunity one has to apply his or her long-term experience to the investment environment that is unfolding (or coming unglued) in the present. If nothing else, most successful investo... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Working Capital Investing – The QDI

08th January 2009
Crash! The 2007 thru 2008 financial crisis halved 401(k), IRA, and Mutual Fund values in a matter of months. For many, retirement dates had to be pushed back; for others, new jobs had to be found. The tragic flaw? No income allocation in the investment pr... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

WCM Investing - The Process

05th January 2009
Most people enter the investment process tip first. They hear something, grab an idea from a popular blog, accept a Cramerism or some motley foolishness, and think that they are making investment decisions. Rarely, will the right-now, instant-gratificatio... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

All About Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, Known As CMOs.

01st December 2008
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) sometimes referred to as Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICs), are one of few innovative investment methods available in today's investment world. CMOs offer relative safety, regular payments and no... Read >
Author: Marcel Ford

You Can Get Valuable Service From Money Management Firms

25th November 2008
While not everyone likes to admit it, businesses and corporations realistically exist for one reason and one reason only: to make a profit for the owners of the company or for the shareholders of the corporation. For many businesses of all sizes, making u... Read >
Author: MIKE SELVON

Wall Street Garage Sale Produces Closed End Fund Bargains

30th October 2008
There's a bright light at the end of the tunnel--- finally. Most of the really well respected, long term investors are advising their audiences to hang in there, to stop the panic selling, and to look for the great companies that have withstood the econom... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Preventing Investment Mistakes: Ten Risk Minimizers

22nd August 2008
Most investment mistakes are caused by basic misunderstandings of the securities markets and by invalid performance expectations. The markets move in totally unpredictable cyclical patterns of varying duration and amplitude. Evaluating the performance of ... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Top 10 Reasons Why A Franchise is Better Investment

21st July 2008
If the American dream is owning a house with white picket fences, it seems that the more filipino dream is moving to the United States to dream the American dream, bringing the number of Filipinos leaving the country each year to take up residence in that... Read >
Author: Francis

Zero Overhead Real Estate Investing---Right Now

11th June 2008
Real estate investing is not nearly as complicated, financially burdensome, or time consuming as you might think. In fact, It's easy to add raw land, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and private homes to your portfolio without brokers, bankers, atto... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor

04th June 2008
The caller seemed surprised that I had never heard about Compound Stock Earnings Programs, or CSEs. "People are earning three to six percent per month with little or no risk", she continued, "I'm thinking of attending a seminar". A wise man once said: "If... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Bonds – Why Invest in Bonds

09th April 2008
Bonds – Why Invest in Bonds WHAT ARE BONDS? A bond is similar to an IOU and in brief a bond is a debt security. The issuer of the bonds can be government, municipality, federal agency, a corporation or any other entity. In return of the loan, the is... Read >
Author: Marcus

Stock and Bond Trading Powers Modern Asset Allocation

19th February 2008
For most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would contain: little i... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Defining a Credit rating agency and what to know about them

19th February 2008
Let me start by giving you the definition of a credit rating agency: a credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations. In some cases, these issuers are companies, cities, non-profit org... Read >
Author: Marcus Rolland

How Do You Spell Correction?

07th August 2007
During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: "How low can we go?" and/or "How long will this last?" Investors who add to their portfolios during downturns invariably experience high... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

How Do You Spell Correction?

07th August 2007
How Do You Spell Correction? During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: "How low can we go?" and/or "How long will this last?" Investors who add to their portfolios during do... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Types of Investing Risks

01st July 2007
Investing in stocks is a risky business. There are some risks you have some control over and others that you can only guard against. Thoughtful investment selections that meet your goals and risk profile keep individual stock and bond risks at an acceptab... Read >
Author: stapin

Penny Stock Picks: The PromiPitfallsses and

01st July 2007
Investing in stocks is a risky business. There are some risks you have some control over and others that you can only guard against. Thoughtful investment selections that meet your goals and risk profile keep individual stock and bond risks at an acceptab... Read >
Author: stapin

Stock and Bond Trading as a Conservative Investment Strategy

30th May 2007
It's likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree that, for most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, Pe... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Basics of Real Estate Investing

24th May 2007
Investing in real estate is comparatively painless, and the rewards are extremely ample. Here are a few of the real estate investing basics. Learn about different investing strategies and how to plan and set your goals. The idea behind real estate investi... Read >
Author: vknarayana

Interest Rate Analysis - Focusing on Inflation

26th May 2006
Although closely related to and integrated with economic growth, interest rates move independently from the economic cycle. They fluctuate freely via trade in the fixed income markets. As such they are both a component of the fundamental analysis of sto... Read >
Author: John Forman

Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management

23rd April 2006
Investment mistakes happen for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty that are irresponsibly downplayed by market gurus and institutional spokespersons. Losing money on an investment may not be ... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff

13th November 2005
When is 3 percent better than 6 percent? Yeah, we all know the answer, but only until the prices of the securities we already own begin to fall. Then, logic and mathematical acumen disappear and we become susceptible to all kinds of special cures for the... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut

Understanding Fixed Income Securities: Expectations

26th October 2005
I've come to the conclusion that the Stock Market is an easier medium for investors to understand (i.e., to form behavioral expectations about) than the Fixed Income Market. As unlikely as this sounds, experience proves it, irrefutably. Few investors grow... Read >
Author: Steve Selengut