While many American families celebrated the official beginning of summer, those of us charged with maintaining their portfolios were hanging on the news each day as it was released. It was a rocky go, and…
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The Cost of Poor Investment Timing
Do you know how much buying and selling your investments at the wrong time can cost you? According to Morningstar, stock funds returned 1.6% annually from 1999-2009. However, the typical fund investor only earned 0.22%…
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The Emotional Investor
I like to keep in-mind the beginning of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem ‘If’ as I lead investors through weeks like last week: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…
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1st Quarter Investment Review – The Dangers of Bond Investing in 2011
The 1st Quarter in 2011 saw many of the markets continue their upward momentum from 2010. Below are the returns for some of the popular indices as of 3/31/11: Total Returns % 1Q Dow Jones…
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How to Invest in Emerging Markets Without Investing in Emerging Market Stocks
There are many approaches to gaining exposure to an investment area of interest. A common, often over-looked or under-utilized approach is through the backdoor. As an example, people that want to ride the Apple computer…
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