Malcolm Gladwell sent ripples through the parenting community in his book, Outliers, with his presentation of the “10,000 Rule”. His hypothesis proposed experts are made from out working and out practicing the competition, and true mastery of a skill would take 10,000 hours of dedication to the craft. Parents enrolled their children in all sorts …
(YAHOO FINANCE) Your Investment Portfolio: Time to Play Defense?
They say “defense wins championships” when it comes to which side of the football is responsible for securing the win in the Superbowl. It’s impossible to lose if the other team can’t score. The same concept can be applied to investing. A defensive stance in investing- one which attempts to limit losses as opposed to always …
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(YAHOO FINANCE) Why Blackrock will win the ETF fee war
As the ugly battle for the White House rages on, another war is taking place in the $2.4 trillion ETF market. Top ETF providers are in a fee-lowering race to win the title of the firm with the lowest cost core products. But one firm, Blackrock, has an edge. Read the entire article that appeared …
(YAHOO FINANCE) Reflections on the Fed from my 12-year-old
Sometimes children can really put things in perspective. They have the luxury of naivete which can often cut right to the heart of issues that cause so much concern for the rest of us. Today’s Fed meeting is one of those issues, and the conversation I had with my 12-year-old son this morning as I …
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(YAHOO FINANCE) US Financial Markets: Absolutely Hideous, Relatively Gorgeous
Isn’t it strange two people can look at the exact same image and see completely different things? It is also strange two investors can analyze the same market data and come to completely different conclusions with respect to value. Click here to read the entire article that appeared in Yahoo Finance.
(YAHOO FINANCE) Is There Any Place To Hide From Market Turmoil
It’s only a matter of days before August month-end brokerage statements will arrive in the mailboxes of millions of investors across the country. It’s fair to assume that most people are not looking forward that moment, assuming they have picked up a newspaper at all in the last month. The question many people will be …
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(YAHOO FINANCE) Trading Volatility ETFs: Respect the Roll
The recent explosion in equity market volatility has left investors and traders stunned by the magnitude of the gyrations in virtually all segments of the market. One of the most violent movers has been the VIX Index and the corresponding ETFs that attempt to track its direction. Click to read the entire article that appeared …
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(YAHOO FINANCE) Factoring the Differences Between Quality and Value
When it comes to investing, most of us are familiar with the various “style boxes” popularized by Morningstar: Small, Medium and Large capitalizations paired up with Value, Blend and Growth equity attributes. There is a multitude of investment vehicles and options to provide investors exposure to any of the various different combinations. Click here to …
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(YAHOO FINANCE) Can Anything Go Right For Energy MLPs?
It is no secret that the energy sector has been under tremendous pressure over the last several months. It’s hard to imagine that the fundamentals could get much worse: * The domestic supply overhang of crude oil has brought prices back down to their March lows. Crude oil futures are down nearly 30% over the …
(YAHOO FINANCE) High Yield Spreads: Rich or Cheap?
Carl Icahn recently made some comments at the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference about the High Yield market: “More importantly, they are overpriced, because if you go down and look at the index — and now I could get into some arcane stuff, but what a lot of these guys do, including BlackRock and the others, …
