A Financial Index Overview: Part I – Indexes Defined
When a popular financial index like the Dow is on a tear, up or down, what does it really mean to you and your investments?
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A simple equation that effects your investments.
When fundamental facts grow harder to discern, investments grow more volatile, and that’s what’s been happening lately, especially with the widespread misperception of the yield curve inversion.
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How to React to Recent Market Volatility
Market volatility can be nerve-racking for investors. Reacting emotionally and changing long-term investment strategies in response to short-term declines could prove more harmful than helpful.
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Market Strategists Prognosticate the Markets Direction
Wall Street strategists and the media are complicit in fueling the myth that the financial markets are predictable – despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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Your Financial Well-Being and the Federal Reserve
What might be the impact of rate changes on you and your financial well-being? Is there anything you should “do” to your investment portfolio in response when the Federal Reserve changes rates?
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3 Key Steps to Protect Your Assets (While You’re Alive)
Taking action to protect your assets and what’s yours while you’re still alive and in sane mind makes such good sense. There are many ways in which you might be unavailable to make critical
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What is the Total Cost of Ownership?
A question worth finding answers to is ‘what is the total cost of ownership?’ The costs you expect to pay are likely to be an important factor in making any investment decision, including major
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Timing Markets Isn’t Everything
The lure of getting in at the right time or avoiding the next downturn may tempt even disciplined, long-term investors. The reality of successfully timing markets, however, isn’t as straightforward as
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Value Premium Investing – How Viable Is It Today?
It’s no secret that in U.S. markets, value stocks have been underperforming relative to growth stocks for around a decade. Has the Value Premium Lost its Mojo? Are the underwhelming returns a temporary,
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The Randomness of Global Equity Returns
Investment opportunities for over 15,000 publicly traded companies exist all around the globe. Fluctuations in performance from year to year add to the complexity of investing globally, and provide little
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