The investment advisor business is a hard field to break into. There’s a ton of licensing and test-taking. Firms don’t hire fresh off the street. Rather, they seek to cherry-pick successful advisors from … Read more →

Investment strategy has only recently come into vogue on Wall Street. Once upon a time the major investment houses employed brokers, traders, technicians of various types and even economists, but no … Read more →

Watching the stock markets rise and fall, you can imagine why a total beginner might be frozen with fear. A thousand points in six months! Two hundred point drops! Booms … Read more →

If you’re a retirement investor of a certain age, you likely have a mutual funds investment in your portfolio — or two. Probably, you’ve owned it for years. As a young investor, … Read more →

Quick question for market timers: Can you tell the difference between “imminent” and “imaginary” trends in the markets? It’s an important consideration, if you are a market timer at heart. For instance, … Read more →

A Yale researcher has the the retirement industry up in arms over his plan to publish apples-to-apples fund fees comparisons of thousands of 401k plans across the country. No mere exercise in … Read more →

A fundamental building block of a successful retirement portfolio is stocks. How to invest in stock, however, is a tricky question. Beginning investors are met with a range of possibilities, … Read more →

Hedge fund investing promises a very simple outcome: Give your money to a manager and he or she will do whatever it takes to make your assets rise in all … Read more →

If you were aiming to save enough money to retire, really retire, and feel secure in your old age, are traditional pension plans better? Sure, but not for the reason … Read more →

The headlines have a strangely unreal ring about them these days. The Federal Reserve’s easy money policy is either about to end or last for years more, housing is in recovery or it’s … Read more →