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It might sound simple, but a big problem for investors is knowing whether a fund manager or broker is doing a good job. Defining what’s “good” is problematic because it depends on how the rest of the market performs. For example, 2% is a horrible return in a bull market. However, preserving your capital…
Younger people are more alienated from political systems and other people than ever before, and this dire situation is changing how businesses and society operate. However, there is another problem: Gen Z often lacks the basic knowledge that older people have about solving problems, cooperating, and socializing. Think about some men who complain that…
The version of the Bible sold by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has deleted the section of the Bible that cites adultery as being a significant sin, according to Bible scholars. The omission is a significant revision to the King James version of the Bible that the Trump campaign is selling to the public. The…
Trump’s legacy is that he is teaching his millions of followers to ignore laws, disrespect Court authority, local and federal laws, cheat on taxes, and tolerate adultery as acceptable behaviors in the Trump MAGA new America. At first, she looked like any other older woman leaving the beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, except for…
Bear markets are an inherent part of market cycles, just as expansions and contractions are a normal part of business cycles. While investors should be concerned about bear markets, especially their duration, there is also an established link between market and business cycles. Understanding both will help investors better understand the cause and duration of…
ETFs, also known as Exchange Traded Funds, are the past century’s most popular and investor-friendly investment inventions. ETFs are now a $7 trillion market and offer various exposures to all market sectors, equity and bond styles, indexes, and specific categories of investments, such as ESG funds. ETFs allow you to trade the market in a…
Hedge funds are more popular today than ever before, but they are not well understood by most investors. They are primarily an institutional product, but they are also used by high-net-worth individuals. For average investors, some of these strategies can be replicated using leveraged ETFs. This video explains those strategies, how hedge funds work, their…
In an increasingly complicated and volatile investment environment, individual investors have a greater need than ever to protect their hard-earned money against both market declines and investment industry sales practices, which can be both opaque and misleading. While market declines are an expected risk, investors’ advice from financial advisors and planners about which mutual…
If you are one of the 116 million individual investors in the U.S. who own a mutual fund, you might want to re-evaluate your buy-and-hold strategy. The reason is that it may have a significant downside. This downside is called “overlap” or “drift,” and it works against you when your fund gets too big…
Can people become rational investors? Or is there something we do that prevents us from consistently making sophisticated financial decisions? Human motives and fears are now recognized as inherent in investor behavior. How people invest, what stocks or funds they select, and their attraction to risky investments are among the factors examined to determine…
Private Equity Definitions Angel investors–Wealthy individuals with operating experience typically invest $50,000 to $1 million in exchange for equity in an entrepreneurial enterprise. Angels are generally passive investors but may sit on the board and offer their experience and advice during the company’s initial growth stages. Arbitrage – A strategy that exploits mispricings between identical…
The foreign exchange market is the largest, most liquid, and arguably the oldest globally. About $5 trillion in forex transactions are made worldwide on various trading rooms and exchanges daily. Some of these markets are regulated by national authorities, such as forex transactions on futures exchanges, with large numbers of individual traders. Other forex…
The basic idea behind asset allocation is to create a diversified portfolio so that one set of investments in an asset class will rise or fall at different times than others in the portfolio during a market cycle. While counterintuitive, sometimes adding a risky asset to a portfolio can reduce its overall risk. This…
Wary of the high volatility in equities and low returns from CDs and money market funds, investors have been moving into bonds in search of stable returns accompanied by more price stability. Investing in bonds during high equity volatility is an understandable investment strategy. In addition to portfolio diversification, bonds have their own risk and…
Businesses love fads. And some enterprises love fraud. From crypto, hula hoops, ESG, ED pills, and Beany Babies to Lava Lights and Pet Rocks, businesses have quickly adopted the latest shiny invention, process, or product and sprinted to copy it and bring it to market as soon as possible. Nothing has changed. Today, there…
The old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” accurately describes what Republican Donald Trump is trying to pull over on wealthy Jews as he goes on his never-ending quest for more money. Specifically, he is targeting Miriam Adelson, the wife of the late Sheldon Adelson, who once called…
In a recent article in Bloomberg by Allison Schrager, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a senior executive at a large asset-management firm told her, “with surprising candor: “We don’t know how to solve the retirement problem.” Such honesty is rare in the investment industry, but it’s unsurprising. The senior executive doesn’t know the solution to…
Breaking News: O’Leary and Trump should notice that real estate tax fraud is taken very seriously in other parts of the world. As this video shows, one of Vietnam’s largest real estate developers was sentenced to death for her fraud. This happened in a country that takes its laws very seriously since real estate fraud…
Thousands of people interact daily with online dating services, hoping to find their best companion. Yet for people over 50, online dating is very different and faster-paced than that experienced by younger people or from the pre-social media and pre-COVID-19 era years ago. Social, mental, emotional, and physical contact drives people to find a…
South Florida cities to offer a new version of their famous Southern hospitality standards in their unique Florida way to visitors, according to a new program. Delray, Florida, April 1, 2024—In an unprecedented action, ten cities in South Florida have issued a joint request for national and individually owned restaurants to open, stipulating that they…
