Should You Make Changes to Your Investment Portfolio
As one of the worst quarters in several years comes to a close you may be asking yourself if you should make changes to your...
Risk & Your Investments – What You Need to Know
Risk is one of the most important concepts to understand when it comes to investing (AND life in general), but risk in and of itself...
Making Smart Investing Decisions
Investing like life is all about making choices. We make hundreds of choices every day. Most of them unconsciously like stopping at a stoplight, brushing...
Investing and the Herd Mentality
When investing your money, a good axiom to remember is that it’s usually wise to avoid following the herd. By the time your friends, family,...
Investment Implications of a Financial Crisis
It seems wherever we turn, all we hear and see in the financial press is what happening in Europe, and in particular, Greece. We would...
Know the Truth About Your Investment Return
It’s an easy trap. You see a good investment and do your research. The company has strong fundamentals, the performance history is solid, the leadership...
Asset Allocation is Important, but What About Asset Location?
It is almost a “mantra” by now that Asset Allocation is a critically important decision in designing the correct portfolio. That truth sometimes obscures another...
When Should I Start Investing?
Generally, it is wise to start investing some funds almost as soon as you start earning them. When it comes to saving for retirement, this...
Is Investment Rate of Return the Right Measuring Stick?
What does the one-year, three-year or five-year return of any group of equities have to do with the achievement of the unique financial goals of...
Who Says You Can’t Time the Stock Market? Why Market Timing Is Easy
At some point every investor, trader, or stock picker has dreamt of buying a stock right before some major news turning him/her into a retired millionaire...
