Why Bad Things Happen to Good Investments

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Why Bad Things Happen to Good Investments:   Long-Term Investing Made Simple The one thing that an investor can count on is that things are going to change. All things, investments and investment styles, cycle up and down. We just don’t know exactly when cycles will change, but they will. Even buy and hold investors, bolstered by years of academic research telling them their system was
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12 Steps to Economic Security

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1. We are only powerless over the financial markets and the economy if we ignore them. 2. Believe it: People who are financially successful share certain traits. 3. Make a decision to be disciplined in your financial matters. 4. Do a personal financial inventory. 5. Decide what you want financially. 6. Prioritize the most important items on your wish list. 7. Never spend your interest or
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Best Days, Worst Days

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Study: Active Management Delivers More Dependable Returns Summary: The risk of selling and moving out of the stock market often focuses on missing good days and hurting overall returns. However, investors have an equal chance of missing a bad day and increasing returns. Since the best days often follow the worst days, back to back, it is statistically more likely that if an investor missed one
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Why the Dollar Bears Are Wrong

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December 14, 2010 Why the Dollar Bears Are Wrong   With the Federal Reserve printing 100 billion new dollars each month (that they admit to) it makes sense that the purchasing power of your dollars will become less and less as the supply of dollars grows and grows.  However, the really obvious outcomes seldom come to pass when investing, making this seem like a crazy business.Keep
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