People have been concerned for a while now about the risk of an upcoming pullback in stocks. There are good ways to protect yourself, but you have to actually take the reins. While we usually think of investment as the pursuit of positive returns over time, and that’s a big part of the reason why […]

Broadridge Financial should be as stable of a company as they come. They make their money in both good and bad times. The company’s stock is far from stable though. Sometimes we may wonder if they send analysts out in the wilderness to live in isolation and send their reports about their neck of the […]

Nobel Prize winning economist William Sharpe is truly a legend in the economics of investing. Now 85 and retired, he is now focused on the issue of outliving your money. Planning for retirement properly and successfully is no small task. There are many variables involved, including how much you can comfortably save, what sort of […]

While we recently ran an article explaining why dividends never make sense, a lot of stocks offer them. We don’t want to just shun them, but they need to earn their keep. If we are attracted to the idea of investing in higher dividend stocks, as many people either were already or have become more […]

Canopy Growth, the world’s largest legal marajuana producing company, has been in freefall since firing their CEO earlier this year. The freefall continues to accelerate. Canadian marajuana producer Canopy Growth remains in serious trouble, and one look at their chart says it all. Just seeing a stock drop from around $50 last April to barely […]

When we look to predict the future, the assumptions we make will determine what the future will hold. Research Associates have used theirs to predict a dim outlook for large caps. In spite of all the advancements that modern civilization has made, some things remain in a pretty nascent stage, and our understanding of the […]

At first glance, it might seem pretty odd that the world’s most popular search engine would get into the banking business. Google offering banking actually makes sense. Google is a huge internet company that already has a big footprint in our lives. It all started with an idea to improve upon search engine performance on […]

Three researchers from Boston College have just released a paper discussing shortcomings of the 401(k) retirement plan. The problems run even deeper than this. The Boston College Center for Retirement Research has a new paper out that examines some of the shortcomings of the 401(k) plan and how that is contributing to the shortfall in […]

People have been discussing all year whether or not investors should pull back or even get out of stocks. This dialogue is picking up again, and this is at least worth thinking on. We have to speculate as to why any investor who is not close to needing to cash in would want to do […]

Common stocks paying dividends was an idea that never really made sense, although some are now waking up to this reality more. Proponents of dividends just don’t get it though. One of the first things you encounter when you learn about stocks is that there are two main types, common stock and preferred stock. Common […]