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April 2012

April 1, 2012

April 27, 2012 04:20 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Big decisions soon need to be made by policymakers and investors. As I’ve said the last few weeks, a wave of economic and market forces are coming together and forming a critical mass that’s creating a lot of stress on the system. It’s not […]

The Bull vs. The Bear

March 22, 2012

It’s rare there’s a day with the stark contrast we saw yesterday. In the April issue of Retirement Watch, I remarked that I don’t recall see such a sharp divide between those who are optimistic and pessimistic about the stock markets. We saw that clearly yesterday. First, Goldman Sachs came out with a report arguing […]

Why Buy-and-Hold Investing Doesn’t Work

March 7, 2012

Andrew Lo is a bright economist at MIT who also is involved with several financial firms. A few years ago he coined the term adaptive markets to explain something we’ve been saying for years. Markets are composed of people, and people don’t react the same way to the same stimulus every time. They learn, or […]

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How Safe Is Your Brokerage Account?

March 1, 2012

The safety of brokerage accounts is front and center for the first time since 2008, thanks to the bankruptcy of MF Global. News stories indicate that about $1.6 billion of customer funds disappeared from MF Global accounts. Customers are denied access to all or part of their account balances and many won’t be made whole. […]

Seeking Higher Yields for Your Safe Cash

March 1, 2012

The Federal Re-serve recently said it would continue its zero interest rate policy through late 2014. The SEC also is about to propose new regulations on money market funds. This combination of actions will keep short-term yields as low as a snake’s belly and make it harder to earn a positive real yield or even […]

10 Rules for Investing

February 28, 2012

Jeremy Grantham of GMO issued his quarterly letter for the fourth quarter of 2011, and as always I recommend investors spend some time with it. This letter is titled “The Longest Quarterly Letter Ever” (it’s 15 pages) and follows last quarter’s “The Shortest Quarterly Letter Ever.” This letter has three sections. The first is 10 […]

The Latest BerkshireHathaway Letter

February 27, 2012

Each year Warren Buffett issues his shareholder letter, and I always recommend it as worth reading. This year I again recommend the 2011 Chairman’s letter to Berkshire shareholders. Unlike his other public discourses in recent years, in the shareholder letters Buffet still hews to comments about the company, its operating subsidiaries, and investments. Even if […]

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