Just about everyone believes that as we get nearer to retirement, and especially after retirement, we should be more conservative with our investing. Is this the right approach? There are good reasons behind our recommending that people be more aggressive with their investments early in life and more conservative as time goes on, and this […]

More and more investors are looking to invest in funds that are governed by social and not just economic principles. BlackRock’s latest offering just beat the record for first day inflows with a socially-focused ETF. BlackRock is the leader in exchange traded funds, or ETFs, although some, including some at the SEC, feel that their […]

Nordstrom stock has been on a real tear over the last 7 months, but not the kind of tear that investors like to see. It has been beaten down so much that it looks like a real bargain to some. Retailer Nordstrom started out the post-recession bull market in real style, where it went from […]

Bitcoin has been on a tear over the last couple of weeks, where it rose almost 60% over this very brief period of time. What goes up that much can also come down a lot as well. Bitcoin investors have been all smiles during April and May, where we have seen the price of bitcoin […]

Newly launched Pinterest stock has done pretty well in its first month on the market. Their first earnings report as a public stock has wiped out almost all of these gains. The thought of investing in an IPO often conjures up dreams of getting in on the cheap on some stocks that go up a […]

Not all that long ago, people used to go to their bank to get their mortgage. This was a very relationship driven business. The internet came along and changed everything. Banks used to handle just about all of the mortgage business at one time, and all of it among those whose credit risk fit the […]

We’re still waiting for the bear market that many have been predicting for a while to hit us. All-time highs aren’t it, but when this does finally come, we need to ask what we will do. All three major U.S. stock market indexes hit all-time highs last week. While there is plenty of fear out […]

After several instances of the bears knocking down stock markets for a couple of percent followed by the bulls spurring a recovery, on Monday, it was an all bear show. After Donald Trump vowed to increase the tariffs on Chinese imports from 10% to 25% a week ago Sunday, everyone knew that the Chinese would […]

Investor Jeremy Grantham is credited with predicting both the 2008 and 2000 market crashes, and he’s predicting some pretty lean times again, this time for 20 years. For those who experienced the big falls that the stock market saw in 2000 and 2008, they might not be all that impressed by someone who has called […]

Morningstar just hosted a conference entitled “Are Index Funds Eating the World”? Some people are worried that index funds may be making everything more expensive. We all know that index funds are growing at a very fast rate, and are now on the brink of overtaking actively managed funds in terms of the percentage of […]