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Stock Analysts – Does Anyone Really Care

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If you’re an investor, you probably know that Wall Street is full of analysts who study and report on what they believe is the health and stability of stocks as well as commodities and other investment products. Their primary duty is to give investors unbiased, tradable advice based on careful study of industry analytics as [...]

Stock Market Decisions – Forget the Noise

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The more information we can get our hands on, the better, right? Not necessarily and here’s why. Speaking personally, I have to admit that I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. A stomach ache might be cancer, a small pain in my chest could be a heart attack and a common cold could be the beginning [...]

9 Exchange Traded Funds Worth a Second Look

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There are so many ETFs on the market that the landscape looks like the mutual fund world. In order to find the quality funds you have to sift through the hundreds of others that probably aren’t a good fit for you. I, like most investors, have a short list of funds that I use to [...]

A Few Stock Picks for 2012

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Not too long ago, I set up a new portfolio for a client. He is in his 40s and has a balance of what I would consider to be upper middle class. His risk tolerance is middle of the road where he doesn’t want a bunch of fixed income but he doesn’t want to take [...]

2012 Stock Market – Say No To Predictions

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Tis the season. If you’re an investor, you’ve probably noticed the endless barrage of media coming to you that includes predictions for 2012. The hottest stocks for 2012, what will the market do, will Europe finally stabilize, will the housing market finally rebound, and will we enter the great age of prosperity that we once [...]

Why Your 401(k) is Probably Broken

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You would think this would be a front page headline but it barely made any noise at all. It’s something that 60% of Americans need to know about yet there doesn’t seem to be much of a push to fix it. It’s catastrophic in scope and if we don’t do something about it now, the [...]

Ditching Your Financial Advisor May Be Destructive Advice

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I have to admit that I’m a little bit biased since part of my business is to manage portfolios for a select number of clients. Knowing that about me, it probably wouldn’t surprise you that I find it both laughable and disturbing when I read articles, some of which appearing in major media outlets, advising [...]

Understand Risk ON, Risk OFF ETNs – Electronic Traded Notes

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There seems to be an exchange traded product for everything these days and another exotic pair of products hit the market recently. Noted investor Dennis Gartman teamed up with MBF Asset Management founder Mark Fisher to introduce a pair of exchange traded notes with ticker symbols, ONN and OFF. Technically, these are exchange traded notes [...]

How Much Do You Know About ETFs?

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If you’re an investor I have a question for you: How’s your knowledge of ETFs? Do you know how they work, how they’re taxed, the difference between an ETN and an ETF? Do you know what a closed end Exchange traded fund is? How about rebalancing? Do you know what that is? What’s a leveraged [...]

Trading Stocks – Checking The News That Moves Markets

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If you have just gotten involved in the stock market, it can seem very unpredictable. There are two things that you can know for sure, the market goes up and the market goes down and you will not always know when it is going to reverse direction. Change is a constant in the market and [...]

Preferred Stock – Why Would I Want Preferred Stock?

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Preferred stock serves a number of purposes. When you’re entertaining or on a dinner date with people you barely know, saying that you own Wells Fargo Preferred stock makes you sound like a seasoned investing pro. Its “preferred” so it has to be an investment that is by invitation only, right? People will definitely look [...]

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