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I'll give you this for free (you won't read it)...sure fire method: you have to do work... that will stop most investors...they want easy
1) Learn the managers (credentials) you are hiring a coach
2) Know and understand the funds holdings...your pl…
The question is what are the best vehicles for accomplishing that while realizing returns better than short term bonds and cash. Are you positioning your portfolio for a significant correction...
Records are made to be broken, but to answer your que…
Billions of $ spent on a sporting event...only in U.S....... for U.S. Companies to benefit from and thus stock holders (always thinking)
let the best team win...fine with me, give me another bud and do you have nachos...past them please...punt
That was a few easy ones Dan....you could dig a little deeper for these fine folks
I don't know if anyone handicaps horse races, but the first thing is throw out the horses that can't win.....then play the best.....same applies to Fund Companies
I used to be in a business where.... IF you were making a lot of money(successful) people esp. your competitors said you "were cheatin"
Guess football is no different...
LLBJ "but they have almost no incentive to save and they have unprecedented amounts of debt when they leave college. " Why unprecedented?, never before? no incentive to save? maybe their future?.......
I don't understand your logic, maybe you can…
George Zimmerman was not a white guy who killed a young black man, he was Hispanic, brown man, but what kind of story is that??
A nonwhite killing a nonwhite...happens every day, every hour.... no media hype reporting everyday?
My mother lived in a Real nice group home for $72,000 a year for 4 years, but no cruising on water, crew members,captain or constant dining....but don't she cared....
I wonder if 20 years from now, analysis will say Obama was a bad president because he was black..... or just say he was just a bad President?..... just wondering
Pretty good article, But quit figuring disaster into the equation, you don't need 40years of RLE, to protect aga. 40% drops in stock market, you will get hit by a bus before that happens again...
"If you’re of a certain age and have saved and inv…
"But here is what I find personally interesting: the price of oil was unusually low throughout extended periods in the 1980s and 1990s, and these two oil stocks did especially well during this drought. In fact, it was a golden age of sorts. Look it …
I'm sitting on tilt...anticipating many opportunities in 2015, need to start a new buy list and sell list...been fooling around getting taxes ready..first things first
Personal Experience is the BEST advice you can get:
"a certificate from an accredited organization" : means nothing,
Most writes, authors, educators have no personal experiences to share their knowledge about, they read something in a book, dreamed …
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:"Dee Lee is a Certified Financial Planner who received a diploma in Financial Planning from Boston University and her MBA from Simmons College. She dissolved her successful financial planning practice for individuals so that she could devote all o…
one more comment on the "Value " of morning star and I'm done;
Morningstar is a mainstay in YOUR business of investing money, but if you can't find pennies a day of value in their presentations and Data reporting then Don't pay for their services...…
Think you should be more concerned if a fund changed Managers, and no longer performed as before, little concern if a new manager takes over and continues with past successful performance, something going right with these funds long term and multipl…
Overpriced? compared to what?..., Tell me where you can get the same amount of information for 50 cents a day (peanuts for my investing success)....Necessary evil for decision making, I'm in Morningstar.... till I find a better source..... just don'…
Clausewitz also stated that “Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”.
Could relate similar to investing:
"Investing is SIMPLE, getting investors to do the simple things, their problems lie"......tb
RMDs (I haven't started) but they are for "SPENDING" money hopefully not for normal living expenses, think of all those years of Saving/investing for WHAT?, more Saving and investing.....I don't think So....SPEND IT....
MFO, certainly nice work, I'm about max. on mutual funds, but have to do some work on these funds...Always room for a winner or two
Best of the Best?" only about 30 are top quintile across all five evaluation periods (20, 10, 5, 3, and 1 year), ye…
I used to have a Tax (expert) in my business days that charged $150 a 1/2 hour, He told me he used to have people come into his office with a Box(s) of receipts and broker statements and say "here do my return" he said "fine the meters running" hard…
