Tag Archives: Retirement Investing
Risk Based ETFs
So what do we do when we come to the conclusion that we can not effectively time the stock market and that constantly buying and selling stocks, bonds, ETFs, and mutual funds is not an effective strategy? …
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Tagged AOA, AOK, AOM, AOR, etf, investing, passive index portfolios, Retirement Investing, Risk-Based ETFs, target risk ETFs
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New iShares ETFs
The following is an article featured on Indexuniverse.com recent ally as part of my column, Efficient Investor.
IShares has just issued a dozen new unique ETFs which track the S&P Target Date Index Series and the Target Risk Index Series. Below is a breakdown of the two categories with the …
While I Was Gone: Target Funds
While I was out of town last week with my wife, several very interesting issues came into the ETF world; Target Date Funds.…
Uncovering The Uncorrelated Asset Class
2008 will be the first full year there has been ETFs tracking emerging market bond indexes. This is a very unique asset class.…
The Most Defensive Small Cap ETF
The small cap asset class has performed well over the last decade and has done relatively well during this current bear market. …
Municipal Bond Funds
Casey Smith, President of Wiser Wealth Management, and I were quoted in a recent article about municipal bond funds. Here’s a quote,…
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Tagged Index Universe, Indexing, investing, Money, MUB, Munis, Retirement Investing, wiser wealth management
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Buffett Buying In
Warren Buffett, famous investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been getting a lot of attention recently for his company’s large purchases in Financial Firms. He has also been very political during the election year. …
Stock Market Recoveries
One of my favorite pieces of stock market advice is by William Berstein,
Investing has and always been, and will remain, an operation in which wealth is transferred from those without a working knowledge of financial history to those who have one.
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The Stock Market Fear Number
Since 1990, the CBOE has issued the volatility index, VIX. VIX is commonly called the ‘Fear Index’ because it tracks the amount of defensive options being bought at the CBOE. …
Hedge Funds, Index Funds, and Buffet’s $1,000,000 Bet
Warren Buffet has bet with one million dollars going to charity that the S&P 500 will beat the top five hedge funds (picked by Protege, a hedge fund to fund) net of fees over a ten year period. …
A Good Explaination of the Market Sell Off
Pat Dorsey, Director of Equity research at Morningstar, Inc, gives a great overview of some of the things that are driving prices away from the fundamentals and gives some good data about past bear markets.
Video: What’s Behind the Relentless Selling…