Target date funds are a fairly new concept where people purchase a fund which is targeted toward when they plan on retiring. Does it make sense to customize this? When you are saving for retirement and don’t want to actively manage your retirement money, which very few investors are up for, turning your money over […]
The fact that “value” stocks on the whole outperformed “growth” stocks last week shouldn’t really raise any eyebrows, but this sure did. Was this really that interesting? The biggest story last week in the stock market was how “value” stocks outperformed “growth” stocks on the whole. It actually only took a couple of days for […]
In a world where economies are so connected, we can no longer to afford to not pay attention to what is happening anywhere, and especially in an area as large as the EU. From taking a cursory view of the changes in the economic situation in the U.S. and elsewhere, the economy of the United […]
It’s not that we didn’t see this coming, but the buying frenzy that sent prices of U.S. treasuries to historic levels had to come to an end sooner or later. Sooner is here. While fundamentals do play a lot bigger role in the bond market than they do with the stock market, momentum still plays […]
You don’t see all that many articles on options plays in the popular financial media, but Barron’s columnist Steven Sears is known to provide a few, and has another for us now. Not a lot of people invest in options, and with good reason. They just don’t know their way around options and may not […]
A company’s business prospects don’t matter as much as many may think, but they do matter, and matter more in some cases. Ford is going in the wrong direction here. The economy may be humming along pretty nicely, but that doesn’t mean that all sectors are doing well. The car industry in particular is one […]
The cost of a college education has been climbing three times faster than the rate of inflation and the amount of student loan debt in the U.S. is rising as well, now at $1.5 trillion. Becoming of age and becoming of age to continue one’s studies happens around the same time, where newly minted adults […]
Hedge fund advisor Avi Tiomkin sees us heading for some real gloom and doom due to the economy contracting and deflationary trends unless we do something really drastic. There are always a variety of opinions out there about the economy. While some may be much more well informed than others, it is important that we […]
When 2018 comes in as a good year for corporate pension funds, and 2019 isn’t a good year at all, we may wonder if the people who run these funds know what they are doing. Many people yearn for the good old days where a lot of people had a pension plan, and especially ones […]
It is very much taken for granted that bonds, and especially treasuries, are quite a bit less risky than stocks. This isn’t quite accurate, and it’s a lot less accurate these days. U.S. treasuries are considered so low risk that we even call them risk-free. Nothing is absolutely risk-free but the chances of these securities […]