We are working through a series of articles to help improve returns for retirement investors. Aging boomers highlight the major retirement crisis as they come to the end of their working careers. Read more…
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In the last article, we looked over the prior year’s returns for the Swensen Six Lazy Portfolio. David Swensen, the Yale Endowment Investment Manager, proposed this portfolio for individual Read more…
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One of the most glaring holes in our education system is retirement investing. Much is said about day trading and the high wire acts of Hedge Funds. Retirement investing is a long term proposition Read more…
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We are working through a series of articles to help improve returns for retirement investors. As the first baby boomers prepare for retirement with the financial meltdown still vivid in our minds and Read more…
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The first baby boomers preparing for retirement with the still steaming financial meltdown at the forefront of our minds. We have been building a simple set of funds that have the potential to Read more…
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As the first baby boomers prepare for retirement with the financial meltdown still smoking in our rear view mirrors we are attempting to build a set of funds that are easy to understand yet have the Read more…
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Last week is another strong week that saw strong ascent of commodity ETFs across the board (other than the natural gas ETF (NYSE:UNG)). The US Oil ETF (NYSE:USO) and Silver ETF Read more…
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We have previously highlighted the plight of boomers coming up on retirement with insufficient funds. There is a great deal of advice to get your portfolios in order. In this article we seek to Read more…
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Last week, all major global stock markets registered loss: Frontier stocks (NYSE:FRN) lost most — -2.6%, followed by Emerging market stocks (NYSE:VWO) — -1.89%, and U.S. stock markets Read more…
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In
July 2009 I profiled a momentum based ETF portfolio. In an effort to be more user friendly and provide out of sample results, I track this portfolio (and others) monthly on
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In
July 2009 I profiled a momentum based ETF portfolio. In an effort to be more user friendly and provide out of sample results, I track this portfolio (and others) monthly on
my blog using Google
Read more…
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Happy Holidays! Many people have the last day of the year off, but not stock and ETF traders. Since 2011 New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday, the NYSE and other exchanges are open for a full day. Read more…
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Stocks tiptoed through a typically introspective, no drama December week in the past five days, with the Dow Jones Industrials rising 0.7%, and the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Russell 2000 all Read more…
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John Bogle, founder and former CEO of Vanguard, believes that ETFs may be one of the greatest Read more…
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I
previously detailed some basic portfolios as well as trading ideas. In an effort to be more user friendly, I track the portfolios monthly on
my blog using Google Docs. One portfolio consists of 5
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