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Dissecting The Shiller P-E Conundrum
Longtime readers of Retirement Watch are familiar with Hussman Strategic Growth and its fall from grace. The fund had a great record prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Since the recovery began in 2009, the fund’s continued to hedge its portfolio, selling short stock index futures as stock indexes rose to record levels. The fund’s […]
More on the Global Asset Portfolio
Last Friday I linked to an article from Cullen Roche arguing that investors shouldn’t be focused on the S&P 500 as a benchmark. Instead, they should focus on the global financial portfolio of assets. Now here’s someone else arguing much in the same vein. The Philosophical Economics blog takes a look at all the media […]
December 2014
December 19, 2014 04:28 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I wish each of you a Merry Christmas. Since next week is shortened by the holiday and not much economic data will be released, I probably won’t be sending an e-mail next Friday. Central bankers gave investors an early Christmas present this week. The […]
Analyzing the New Money Market Fund Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission revised the rules for money market funds earlier in 2014, making the first substantive overhaul of the funds in decades. Investors need to understand the rules and consider if they want to make changes to where they cash is held after the rules are effective. The first thing to know […]
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November 2014
November 26, 2014 03:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Happy Thanksgiving to each of you. Since there isn’t going to be significant data reported Friday and markets will close early on Friday. I’m doing the weekly summary on Wednesday. A lot of data was reported in this holiday-shortened week. Markets took a break […]
7 Key Investing Behaviors
Behavioral economics ended the idea of rational economic man. Here’s a quick review of the top seven common human behaviors that are irrational and cost investors money. 4. Confirmation bias How it tricks us: It’s a basic human flaw: We like to think we’re always right, and will go to great lengths to seek out […]
Evaluating Investments by the Inventor of the Sharpe Ratio
Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe gave an interesting interview to AAII. He makes several points that all investors should note. Sharpe developed a statistic that’s now called the Sharpe ratio. He said he was looking for a number to consider if you only can look at one number to evaluate an investment. Now, he says […]
Dangers of Large Mutual Funds
Some of you might remember back to the stock market crash of October 1987, when major indices fell about 25% in one day. There was a lot of finger pointing at the time about the cause, but I remember a number of people saying that a major mutual fund company decided to unload a lot […]
529 College Saving Plans
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Art and Collectibles Investing
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Interest Rates and the Yield Curve
Investing for Children and Grandchildren
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Shiller
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Stock Market Bubbles
Stock Market Crash
Stock Market Votality
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