Investing
Profitable Asset Management
Long term management of assets is more than learning fundamental analysis of stocks, diversification of a stock portfolio, and choosing high paying dividend stocks. Profitable asset management involves choosing between investments in real estate, offshore investments, growth markets at home and abroad, stable consumer products companies, and interest bearing investments. Profitable asset management often has […]
Reasonable Investment Advice
If you are wondering how to invest $10,000 you may not want anything fancy. You may just want reasonable investment advice. If the folks who invested all of their money with Bernie Madoff had it to do all over again they would go with reasonable investment advice and not get suckered into a pyramid scheme […]
Finding Good Financial Advisors
In difficult financial times one can still make money in investments. Part of what is needed is finding good financial advisors. No matter how skilled one is at technical and fundamental analysis of investments, there is no need to repeatedly reinvent the wheel. Finding good financial advisors does not mean that you must do everything […]
Investing for a Devalued Dollar
While fiscal cliff stock worries wax and wane, smart investors should be thinking about investing for a devalued dollar. One of the reasons for US fiscal problems is, in fact, an overly strong US dollar. Across the world countries that want to export goods to North America repeatedly purchase US dollars. One reason is that […]
Secure Investment Services
In trying times, investors seek the help of secure investment services. Many invested in hedge funds prior to the 2008 market collapse. They watched their hard earned lifetime assets evaporate virtually overnight. People who sought the services of investment services, such as that of Bernie Madoff, believed what they were told and believed that they […]
Investing and the Continuing Fiscal Cliff Drama
The President of the United States says that we “are not a deadbeat nation.” He states that the US must raise its debt limit to avoid another fiscal cliff situation. From the President’s point of view, Congress must pay for the bills that it has rung up. From the viewpoint of those who want to […]
Picking Investment Advisors
Is the key to investment profits picking investment advisors or, perhaps, knowing which to avoid? If you are picking investment advisors because you are looking for investing tips, remember that the most successful investors commonly do their own fundamental analysis. Put this advice in the “no free lunch” category. Picking investment advisors should be done […]
Fiscal Cliff Fight Investment Losses
Despite the very public agreement to extend middle class tax cuts and increase taxes on the very rich, the fiscal cliff fight continues. Our concern in this investment column is fiscal cliff fight investment losses. One bright spot for those who believe in the right for parents to pass their wealth on to their heirs […]