Portfolio Report Card: A Risk Heavy $696,000 Investment Plan
Your investment portfolio is nothing more than a reflection of you. Put another way, it’s a personal statement about how you view risk, taxes, diversification,...
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Are Stocks Ignoring the Bond Market’s Warning?
After gaining five consecutive years and gaining nine out the past 10 years, the U.S. stock market is on a roll. And while it’s easy...
Do Rising Auto Delinquencies Spell Trouble Ahead?
Is consumer credit quality deteriorating? TransUnion reports: “While delinquency levels for subprime borrowers have grown from 4.2% in Q3 2012 to 4.5% in Q3 2013...
Have Energy Stocks Finally Bottomed?
Despite declining oil prices over the past few months, industry analysts are most optimistic regarding the Energy sector in 2015, based on their current ratings...
Portfolio Report Card: A $496,000 Investment Plan with an Adventurous Flair
All investment portfolios are comparable to a novel, where each individual chooses their own personal genre and classification. If your investment portfolio was a novel,...
Is Rising Stock Market Volatility Bullish?
When stocks go up volatility goes down and vice versa. While this historically inverse relationship plays out most of the time, but there’s been a significant...
Is it Time for Stock Market Investors to Play Defense?
The U.S. stock market has gained five consecutive years and 9 out of the past 10 years. Put another way, an offensive oriented aggressive approach toward...
One Place Where So-Called “Smart Beta” Hasn’t Been Very Smart
Never mind what the cute marketing brochures or what nouveau indexers say. The trumped-up allegations that beta is somehow “smart” or “better” is a grand...
A Boring Sector with Spectacular Results
“If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring,” observed George Soros. Which sector of the...
Q&A: Why Can’t Leveraged ETFs be Bought and Held?
Dear ETFguide, You and just about all the other ETF specialists are very adamant about using leveraged ETFs as short-term trades only......