Your home is your most valuable asset, right? Or maybe it’s your retirement portfolio. Chances are, if you’re under the age of 55, there is another part of
Read More
Short-term traders often get whipsawed; it is an occupational hazard of trying to predict the fundamentally unknowable future
Read More
’Tis the season for taxable dividends and capital gains to show up in your mutual fund account—and on your tax return.
Read More
Many brokerage offices might assure you, verbally, that they follow a ‘best interest’ standard, but that term is currently not well-defined and subject to a lot
Read More
If you believe, as many financial professionals do, that tax rates are going to go up in the future, then paying taxes now and eliminating future taxes provides
Read More
Savings rates matter more than rates of return, and seemingly small changes in savings habits can add up dramatically over time.
Read More
It’s natural to look at returns this year and want to stop the bleeding, but that would mean selling and taking the risk that the markets will suddenly startle
Read More
The personal savings rate was just 4.4% in April, that’s the lowest rate recorded since September 2008. That 4.4% compares to 6% earlier this year and upwards
Read More
The world may never be quite as dependent on oil production in the future as it has been during the recent unpleasantness at the pump. Currently, renewable
Read More
When the market is soaring one day and plummeting the next stress and anxiety can easily creep into our daily thoughts and actions. Focusing on the ‘little’
Read More
If we are, indeed, experiencing a recession, it is an unusual one, triggered not by the usual decline in corporate activity and job losses
Read More