Investment Strategy

Your Personal Financial Security Part I

Your personal financial security may not be as strong as it should be. You may be more vulnerable than you think. I called a...

Quantum Dawn 2

Over the Summer some Wall Street banks ran a crisis scenario in which "bank executives in charge of operations, technology and crisis planning were...

“Don’t Fight the Fed.” All the Time?

Don't fight the Fed is the mantra of many investors today, but don't fight the Fed is a dangerous strategy late in an economic...

How Vanguard Wellesley Won the War

You want to keep this chart on your refrigerator because there's been a lot of talk in the press lately about 2008. Looking back...

High Yield Risk

I was listing to WEEI sports radio last week when I heard an advertisement pushing structured settlement investments. The juicy 5%-7% yields are hard...

Make the Best Use of Tax Deferred Accounts

A recent article in Financial Planning noted that investors can generate 20 to 50 basis points each year in return by properly allocating assets...

Bezos vs. Buffet: Billionaires’ Different Take on Media

With the sale of The Washington Post, Warren Buffet has unloaded a large stake in a drowning media company. Taking it off his hands...

New Hampshire’s Unknown Billionaire: Keep it Simple Stupid

Turns out not all the money in the world is made by sexy tech companies. Keep it simple stupid. https://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=Y2ZGdzZDplmPmFtfzzVi8KrylY7bLmY0&playerBrandingId=8a7a9c84ac2f4e8398ebe50c07eb2f9d&width=640&deepLinkEmbedCode=Y2ZGdzZDplmPmFtfzzVi8KrylY7bLmY0&height=360&thruParam_bloomberg-ui=FALSE Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Matthew...

Pros vs. Joes Investing

Are you a bearish pro or a bullish Joe? Last week we showed you a chart from BlackRock displaying just how poorly the average...

Average Investors Prone to Bad Decisions

Current market volatility is creating a moment ripe for bad decision making on the part of the average investor. An interesting chart (below) published...