Even though the stock market gets a lot more attention, the bond market is roughly twice as big. We look at the three main types of bonds and how they have fared this year. It is standard practice for investors to hold a certain percentage of their portfolios in bonds, seeking to offset the risk […]

After a disappointing 2019, the top-ranked South Dakota Retirement System did some housekeeping in the first quarter of 2020, including buying a million shares of an index ETF. State pension funds control a lot of money, and the fact that tiny South Dakota, the 47th most populous state in the country with only 884,000 people, […]

In the rough and tumble world of stocks that we’re in now, investors are presented with all sorts of lists of stocks to go with now. We roll out six for you to have a look at. Stocks have come a long way since their bottoming in late March, and there have been many good […]

One of the things that we know for sure in this financial crisis is that our economy is taking a big hit. Top ranked Wall Street economist Nancy Lazar discusses what may be ahead. Back in the early days of the coronavirus, we marveled at China’s locking down their country and wondered what the global […]

In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, with the world clamoring for a vaccine against this, many investors are hoping to cash in on this. It may not be all that exciting though. Investing in stocks that promise more effective, or at least more profitable medical treatments can seem like a pretty exciting prospect at […]

AQR Capital Management founder Cliff Asness wasn’t a big fan of value stocks, but he changed his mind last fall, feeling that they are now due. He is still waiting patiently. For a couple of magical weeks last September, value stocks were all the rage in the financial media when it was discovered that value […]

It often doesn’t take much to scare financial markets, and the way that they interpreted Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s comments on the prospects of negative interest rates proves this. The very idea of a central bank lending money to banks at negative interest rates is a very recent one, and one that isn’t even that […]

Pointing to several current issues that by themselves would normally weigh on stocks significantly, Goldman sees us giving back 18% of recent stock market gains over the next 3 months. The moment stocks started to rebound from the 35% nosedive caused by the coronavirus outbreak and its economic response, pundits started to line up to […]

During the last financial crisis, the housing market was ground zero. It’s much more on the periphery this time, and the effects of the lockdown will be more like a stall than a crash. The 2008 financial crisis was brought about entirely from the collapse of the housing market, or more specifically, the collapse of […]

The standard advice that investors get has them diluting their stock returns by balancing with bonds. We may want go the other way instead, to double down on our stock returns. Very few investors think all that much about what they invest in. They often will rely on professional advice, whether this be from a […]