The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip OffsOf course, there's always the option of having a perfectly balanced portfolio designed. Such was the case when a prospective client phoned me in 1999 during the height of the technology boom. He felt left out because everybody was making money in one of history's great bull markets, but his portfolio was so well balanced that he was neither making nor losing anything. He would have been better off in a money market account. To me, the term balanced portfolio translates into this: I have no clue what I'm doing, where the major trend is, what I should be buying or whether I should be in the market in the first place. I'm hedging so much that one investment goes up and another goes down. [More] | Investing in Dividend Paying StocksWhen you own a portfolio filled with companies that have a history of raising their dividend every year, and a systematic approach of adding more shares to the portfolio through the dividend reinvestments every quarter, plus having a simple savings plan with an opportunistic buying approach of adding even more shares to the portfolio every quarter, it really doesn't matter. I am always buying more shares. [More] | Give your stakeholders a raise - increase asset productivity!Enhancing stakeholder value is tougher in a growth-restricted economy, however strong management of asset productivity will give most organizations more financial options. When many companies are pulling in their horns, seeking ways to protect profits, and basically trying to survive, finding ways to make idle or under-utilized assets work harder will strengthen the company's financial health. [More] |
Using The Bank's Money For Your Gain...The Power of Leverage!
Using the banks money for your gain… The power of leverage
Options Surging on Sirius
With Howard Stern now reiterating (ad nauseam) that he isn't going anywhere now or ever (despite recent erroneous claims in the press to the contrary), investors feel confident in putting some additional speculative money into Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) ...(Read More
John McCabe's Web Guides: New PayPal Identity Theft Plot
The identity theft boys are at it again. I thought I'd seen all the PayPal spoofs and scams, but Angela Treat Lyon showed me a new one. Read about it here:
Goodies: Nasty Paypal Scam
It seems like every money related web site I use these days- banks, bro.
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