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1.	Bookmarks: 2	Stock Market Corrections - Pulling The Proper Trigger Why are investors afraid (shocked, confused, overwhelmed, angry) about stock market corrections? Here are seven assessments of the correction phase of the market cycle that may just clear their heads about these periodic gifts from the Investment Gods.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	A Stock Market Correction Is A Beautiful Thing A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I'm told, corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or support levels. In reality, it's much easier than that. Here's a list of ten things to think about doing, or to avoid doing, during corrections of any magnitude. There has never been a correction/rally that has not succumbed to the next rally/correction ---
3.	Bookmarks: 3	FREE - - - Market Cycle Investment Management Webinar & Mentoring Program - - - FREE Kiawah Golf Investment Seminars is proud to announce the FREE MCIM educational webinar program. The program will deal with the Market Cycle Investment Management methodology, safer income investing, and formulating cyclically valid performance expectations. Seats are always available for both amateurs and professionals.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	What Do The Top 100 Newspaper Business Editors Have In Common, Besides Arrogance Should the country's biggest newspaper business editors be interested in a better way to manage investment portfolios than mutual funds or Modern Portfolio Theory speculations about the future? Should they care about an old approach to investing that actually takes advantage of the market cycle? Should they be tired of promulgating the same old and tired Wall Street advice that always seems to take investors in the wrong direction. Yeah, they should.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	What Your Mother Never Told You About Income Investing: Twenty Questions Investors are a very dependent group of people, particularly now that most employed persons have been given the responsibility of directing their own savings and investment programs for retirement. Mother Wall Street has monopolized this huge market, and nursed its children first on Mutual Funds and now on derivative betting mechanisms they call index ETFs ---the unhealthy investment equivalent of a diet of fast food, limited protein, and high energy fusion products.
6.	Bookmarks: 0	What Your Mother Never Told You About Income Investing: Twenty Questions (Part Three) But, and this is about the biggest news in the history of the financial markets, news that was totally ignored by the financial media: the income generated by taxable income CEFs (other than REITs and mortgage heavy investment funds) actually increased during the financial crisis. The same result was experienced in the Tax Free arena, but with no exceptions at all.
7.	Bookmarks: 0	What Your Mother Never Told You About Income Investing: Twenty Questions (Part Two) Investors should certainly know the basics about what they are doing. Corporations raise capital for their operations by issuing common stock, or shares of ownership in the company. They also raise money by borrowing from banks, insurance companies, and the public through the use of debt instruments called bonds, debentures, notes, and others.
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Hang On A Minute - The Mighty Dow Is Still 10% Below 2007 Levels! Do they think investors are stupid enough to get excited about this dismal performance? Particularly, when less than 20% of professionally managed equity funds did as well. And how about unmanaged ETFs? I haven't heard any claims of brilliance, have you?
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Golf and Investing --- Four Important Lessons Golfers will spend thousands on instruction, gadgets, machines, clinics, magazines, lessons, drivers, and putters. Investors love the gimmicks, shortcuts, and expert recommendations, but they seem allergic to anything really educational. They must see it as a sign of weakness. Golfers should be better investors. Investors need to introduce themselves to some basic education.
10.	Bookmarks: 5	Managed Closed End Funds --- Solid Income Investments in Liquid Form Unlike conventional mutual funds, CEFs do not issue and redeem shares directly with investors at net asset value. CEFs are listed on national securities exchanges, where shares of the Investment Company are purchased and sold in transactions with other investors, just like individual company stocks, and most often not at net asset value.
11.	Bookmarks: 1	What is an MCIM Portfolio? Steve Selengut developed the Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) methodology for managed asset allocation in 1970. The approach has been used in the management of Sanco Services Inc private portfolios for over thirty years.
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Investors Dig The BIG Buy Low (October, 2005) Market Corrections can be good for the wallet! Corrections are part of the normal shock market menu, and can be brought about by either bad news or good news. If you don’t love corrections (and deal with them like visiting relatives) you really don’t understand the financial markets. Don’t be insulted, it seems as though very few investors see it this way.
13.	Bookmarks: 2	Investors Dig The BIG Buy Low - Conclusion (October, 2005) Market Corrections can be good for the wallet! Corrections are part of the normal shock market menu, and can be brought about by either bad news or good news. If you don’t love corrections (and deal with them like visiting relatives) you really don’t understand the financial markets. Don’t be insulted, it seems as though very few investors see it this way.
14.	Bookmarks: 1	Sanco Services Sanco Services is an investment portfolio consulting firm specializing in asset allocation, portfolio design, and trading techniques.
15.	Bookmarks: 6	The Working Capital Model - Part 1 Asset Allocation is an Investment Planning Tool, not an Investment Strategy --- few investment professionals understand the distinction. Fewer still have discovered the power of: The Working Capital Model!
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Sanco Services Two Sanco Services teaches investors how to design what we affectionately refer to as the: You probably don't need an annuity, really, income program. It emphasizes the generation of high levels of realized income within a portfolio that contains only high quality securities.
17.	Bookmarks: 6	Income Investing 101 --- What Your Professors Never Told You After forty years of investing, a few things become crystal clear: you need to focus on quality, individual securities, diversify intelligently, and develop a lifetime supply of income. I call these principles the big three or the QDI. Just like the ice cream brick of my youth, it's just not right without all three flavors. The investment puzzle becomes easier to solve if you have a handle on all the pieces.
18.	Bookmarks: 1	Understanding Income Investing – Second Chance Survey Hundreds of people responded to the last Income Investing survey, and all papers were corrected and returned. As a group, the class failed to pass the test of income investing competancy. Here's another chance.
19.	Bookmarks: 0	THE DISMAL DECADE MY ASSTERISK- 11/30/99 THRU 12/31/2009 This spreadsheet summarizes the manual analysis of 55 individual portfolios managed using WCM based Market Cycle Investment Management procedures and techniques.
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Calculating Your Investment IQ Stocks, bonds, index funds; averages, recessions, market rallies and corrections; mutual funds, technical analysis, financial statements; commissions, taxes, and discount brokers.
21.	Bookmarks: 1	The Dow Jones Industrials --- A Blue Chip Average No More To most investors, the DJIA provides all of the information they think they need, and they worship it mindlessly, thinking that this time tattered average has mystical predictive and analytic powers far beyond the scope of any other market number. It's Wall Street's rendition of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Insured, Tax Free, Municipal Bonds Yielding nearly 7%. Interested? Of course you should be interested. There are at least eight reasonable explanations for recent Municipal Bond price weakness --- there are at least eight excellent reasons why investors should be viewing this weakness as a buying opportunity. Lower prices and higher yields are good news for income investors!
23.	Bookmarks: 3	Retirement Income Investment Planning - Step One (September 2008) Defined Contribution plans are just not retirement plans --- even if your employee benefits department, the media, Wall Street, and Uncle assure you that they are. Most plans are difficult to self-manage with a retirement income objective. Still, these benefit plans are necessary and quite capable of taking you close to where you want to be.
24.	Bookmarks: 1	The Total Return Shell Game Just what is this total return thing that income investment managers like to talk about, and that Wall Street uses as the performance hoop that all investment Managers have to jump through? Why is it mostly just smoke and mirrors? Here's the formula:
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Real Estate Investing: No Lawyers, No Debt, No Plungers Without having mega millions to work with, or a line of credit that goes around the block, you can have positions in various forms of Real Estate (commercial, industrial, residential) at the same time, and focus either on growth opportunities, income production, or a combination of the two.
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Understanding Income Investing – Valid Expectations - Part Two The critical relationship between the two classes of securities in your portfolio, is this: the market value of your equity investments and that of your income purpose investments are totally, and completely unrelated. Each Market dances to it's own beat. Stocks are like heavy metal or Rap...impossible to predict. Bonds are more like the classics and old time rock-and-roll...much more predictable.
27.	Bookmarks: 6	Income Investing: Go Ask Alice Don't let uniformed thinking sabotage your retirement program; don't let the selfish advice of a product sharpshooter send you chasing rabbits when IRE (interest rate expectations) or other temporary market conditions shrink the market value of your income portfolio. Feed your head; feed---your---head. Income pays the bills, and if the income level is both steady and adequate, there is no need to change investments.
28.	Bookmarks: 0	Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff - Part Two The larger the portfolio, the more likely it is that you will be able to buy round lots of a diversified group of bonds, preferred stocks, etc. But regardless of size, individual securities of all kinds have liquidity problems, higher risk levels than are necessary, and lower yields spaced out over inconvenient time periods.
29.	Bookmarks: 0	Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff - Part One When is 3 percent better than 6 percent? Yeah, we all know the answer, but only until the prices of the securities we already own begin to fall. Then, logic and mathematical acumen disappear and we become susceptible to all kinds of special cures for the periodic onset of higher interest rates. We’ll be told to sit in cash until rates stop rising, or to sell the securities we own now, before they lose even more of their precious market value.
30.	Bookmarks: 6	Income Investing Made Easy - Part One You don't have to be a professional Investment Manager to professionally manage your investment portfolio, but you do need to have a long term plan and know something about Asset Allocation --- a portfolio organization tool that is often misunderstood and almost always improperly used within the financial community. Remember, your unhappiness is Wall Street's most coveted asset. Don't humor them.
31.	Bookmarks: 3	Income Investing Made Easy - Part Two Base income includes the dividends and interest produced by your portfolio, without the realized capital gains that may actually be the larger number much of the time. No matter how you slice it, your long-range comfort demands regularly increasing income, and by using your total portfolio cost basis as the benchmark, it's easy to determine where to invest your accumulating cash.
32.	Bookmarks: 2	Testing All Texas Schools Athletes For Steroids? It Could Happen Soon Professional athletes have been in the news a lot over the past few years, either being accused or admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs. Major league baseball has taken several hits with accusations being brought against some of their top players, such as home-run king Mark McGwire, who took the fifth amendment to not incriminate himself during Congressional questioning on the subject. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, a...
33.	Bookmarks: 1	Investment Q & A Workshop - Brain Picking Only - No Product Sales The first Q & A meeting will be held the week of January 10th --- your questions discussed by a panel of experts with nearly 100 years of investment experience. Send your questions (maximum of two) and date preference (Tuesday thru Thursday) with your PayPal payment of $14.95 to sanserve@aol.com. Agenda, contact, and GoToMeeting information will be sent to you prior to the meeting date.
34.	Bookmarks: 0	Weighted Average Cost Of Capital (WACC), Commodity Historic Prices, Index Prices, And Country Risk The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is a calculation of a company’s proportionately weighted capital according to specific categories. All sources of capital – common stock, preferred stock, bonds, and any other debt are included. It’s computed by multiplying the cost of each capital source by its proportional weight (% of total capital) and then working through this equation.WACC = (E/V) * Re + (D/V) * Rd * (1-Tc)Where:Re = cost of equityRd = cost of debt...
35.	Bookmarks: 3	How To Invest Your Money Safely When it comes to making investments, most people know that there is always room for a possible loss. Stock market investments in particular are rather notorious for taking a rather well funded portfolio and emptying it rather quickly. Of course, that does not happen all the time, otherwise no one would do it. If, on the other hand, you do not want to take what many consider to be an unnecessary risk, there are a number of other investments that are reasonably safer, can still...
36.	Bookmarks: 0	Real Estate Bubble If the real estate market declines how can you make money in it? The make a profit on any market (real estate, products, stocks and bonds) simply must be in motion. It must increase or decrease. A stable market is one you do not turn a profit. The key is handle the procurement and sale of shares in both markets
37.	Bookmarks: 0	Can You Make A Killing In The Securities Market In 2007? Imagine a world a world in which either all investors have costless access to currently available access about the future , all investors are good analysts , all investors pay close attention to market prices and adjust their holdings appropriately and that all investors pay close attention to market prices and adjust their holdings appropriately.Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?In such a market a security’s price would be a good estimate of its investment value, whe...
38.	Bookmarks: 0	A Completely New Way To Get Rich Rapidly This new way is catching on around the world. People are compounding money rapidly for themselves.Its called opportunity investment and it has nothing to do with the traditional way to invest. Stocks, bonds, shares etc.This is hands on. The entire premise is based on compounding and becoming the investor sourceYou see when we hand over our funds to professionals to invest our capital we dilute our returns dramatically. It makes sense if you think about it. T...
39.	Bookmarks: 11	Second Home Are a Great Investment The new millennium has not been good to stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other financial investments. Most investors have found that the best performing asset in their portfolio is their home. Real estate has been a safe haven for investors with appreciation far outpacing other investments. With the security and growing values of residential real estate, a growing number of home owners are now investing in a second home.
40.	Bookmarks: 0	Investing In Bonds Versus Forex Investing in bonds and the savings bank is safe as we will see. But if you are adventurous you can make a great deal from Forex.The article is written primarily for the smaller investor who needs high yield, the man who has between, let us say, $5,000 and $100,000. If the $5,000 investor secures a return on his money not of 3%, or $150 per year, but 12% $600 per year his benefit will be material, not nominal.If the $100,000 investor receives not $3,000 but $12,000 the...
41.	Bookmarks: 0	Re-evaluating Surety Bond Underwriting Surety bonds are suppose to be underwritten with a 0% loss ratio. There are no funds for claims built into the premium of traditionally underwritten surety bonds. This standard is obviously impossible to achieve on a consistent basis.
42.	Bookmarks: 0	What Is Invoice Factoring And Invoice Discounting? The Romans were the first civilization to sell promissory notes at a discount, beginning the industry of factoring. America was built largely on the possibilities of factoring, when colonial businesses were factored by Europeans willing to invest cash in exchange for the promise of large returns, and government bonds also use the same principles applied by businesses when they engage in invoice factoring.Invoice factoring is, at its simplest, the sale of the right to coll...
43.	Bookmarks: 0	Lapland “Polar Dreams” in Finalnd My love affair with Finland began the moment I stepped off the Finnair plane. My ancestry is Norwegian and I guess something primal in my Viking genes bonds me in kindred spirit with this unique Nordic land. Having toured over a hundred countries, this is virgin territory for me and what an utterly cool place to visit in January. I’ve packed enough thermal gear to survive the most brutal blizzards but on arrival in Helsinki today, there is no snow.
44.	Bookmarks: 0	The Risks And Benefits Of Corporate Bonds Rarely will you find an investment where you gain a substantial reward without an equally substantial amount of risk. Let's face it - the odds are stacked against you. Not only are there other huge banks and multinational corporations you have to compete against that have more capital than you will ever have, but there are millions of other investors trying to test their luck in the same market. Your choice of where to invest your money is therefore highly important. This is ...
45.	Bookmarks: 0	Investing Your Self Directed IRA or 401K In Philippine Condotel Investment Real Estate People are beginning to catch on. A year or so ago, few people realized that they could manage their IRA investment portfolios themselves, and even fewer knew that they could invest their IRA retirement money in something other than stocks and bonds
46.	Bookmarks: 0	6 Proven Wealth Building Strategies Building wealth is as simple as saving a little bit here and a little bit there. You need not have great riches in order to accumulate wealth, but you need to have the drive, determination, and discipline to successfully increase your wealth. Let’s look at 6 proven wealth building strategies you can put into use.
47.	Bookmarks: 0	Top Rated Investment Bonds Your typical independent investor will never be able to understand every aspect of bond investing. Research on bonds fills volumes. It is for this reason, therefore, that you do as much research as you can prior to investing, and if you can, take advantage of professional investors that can manage a portfolio for you.1. Bond RatingsNot all stocks are created equal - some are a strong buy whereas others are holds or sells. Bond ratings get assigned over 20 different po...
48.	Bookmarks: 0	Savings Accounts - Professional Advice When it comes to savings, you may well find yourself daunted by the sheer variety of ways to invest your money. Particularly if you find yourself with a substantial amount to invest, and are less than confident at dealing with things like the stock market, bonds and trusts, you’re likely to gain from professional expertise.
49.	Bookmarks: 0	Betting on baseball has never been better! Now that we have put the Barry Bonds/ Babe Ruth blah, blah, blah to sleep, I think it’s time that we sat back and wagered a few bucks on our favorite MLB team. Parity is here and every one of the six divisions is up for grabs this year and handicapping these teams, takes patience and talent.
50.	Bookmarks: 1	Create An Indelible Bond With Your Child Every parent aims to bring up a child that is loving, giving, confident, happy, and a part of a closely knit family. Parenting is a natural process and more often than not it is not books, counselors, or doctors that will guide you but it is your in born instinct and bonds with the child.
51.	Bookmarks: 0	Barry Bonds, only One More Record to Break to Become Number 1 With a 445-foot landing over the center field wall of the Giants' waterfront AT&T Park, two run shot Barry Bonds beat his magical 715th home run, overtaking baseball legend Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home-run list. In the fourth-inning Bonds swung a ball that Colorado Rockies' starting pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim threw and it came a week after he matched Ruth's 714 career home runs during an inter-league game against the Oakland Athletics to end a nearly two-week fall.
52.	Bookmarks: 0	Guided Meditation Online - Can We Trust The Internet? The Internet is, without any doubt, the greatest invention of the millennium. No one can deny the power of this technological medium to bring people together, to create bonds, to stimulate minds, to increase our informational backgrounds, or to teach us different things, such as the guided meditation online. Yes, indeed… This is possible, even though it seems hard to believe. Internet thus proves to be not only a direct source of entertainment but, most importantly a means of...
53.	Bookmarks: 0	Getting Out Of Student Debt Whether you are a college student or the parent of a child planning to attend college, student debt will become an issue that must be dealt with.Studies have shown that nearly 75 percent of all college students rely on some form of financial aid while attending college. This includes both private and public schools. Some of the aid that students rely on comes from grants and scholarships which do not have to be repaid, but other forms of aid come as student loans, which, ...
54.	Bookmarks: 0	Using A Credit Union For Your Savings Credit unions can be a viable alternative to banks as long as you meet certain conditions. In general, credit unions can perform many of the same services that banks perform, but there can be exceptions to this.Credit unions are member organizations and this is the biggest difference between them and banks. When you join a credit union you, in essence, become a stakeholder in the institution. In the past, most credit unions were formed around certain professions or formed...
55.	Bookmarks: 2	The Ultimate Investment Portfolio Hedging Strategy Once upon a time (long before Quants, Swaps, and million dollar bonuses) investors knew that they could not know what the market will do--- in direction, duration, range, or vacillation. They recognized that neither humans nor human created machines could predict the future with any degree of accuracy. So they learned how to deal with uncertainty.
56.	Bookmarks: 3	The Investment Education You Slept Through In College --- and it's free! Kiawah Golf Investment Seminars (KGIS) presents a monthly investment workshop program that will help you out-perform the markets ---rally after rally, correction after correction
57.	Bookmarks: 0	A New Wall Street Line Dance: Performance - Line One (December, 2005) Every December, with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, investors begin to scrutinize their performance, formulate coulda’s and shoulda’s, and determine what to try next year. It’s an annual, masochistic, rite of passage.
58.	Bookmarks: 0	“How To” Start Trading The Forex Market? (part 3) More and more well informed investor and entrepreneurs are diversifying their traditional investments like stocks, bonds & commodities with foreign currency because of the following reasons:
59.	Bookmarks: 0	Seven Come Leverage-7 Reasons Why Forex Is a Superior Trading Arena for Individuals Why the small speculator should consider foreign currency trading over stocks, bonds, commodities and mutual funds.
60.	Bookmarks: 0	If the banks do it - Why don't you Foreign currency trading is such a lucrative and easy to understand market that many who used to trade stocks, bonds, commodities and futures have switched to trading nothing but FOREX. Even Bill Gates and the world renowned trader Warren Buffet now trade currencies as part of their overall strategies. If they are doing it shouldn’t we follow them, after all isn’t it true that to become wealthy or successful you have to do what wealthy and successful people do.
61.	Bookmarks: 0	Upside potential with convertible bonds Convertible bonds are bonds issued by corporations that are backed by the corporations' assets. In case of default, the bondholders have a legal claim on those assets. Convertible bonds are unique from other bonds or debt instruments because they give the holder of the bond the right, but not the obligation, to convert the bond into a predetermined number of shares of the issuing company.
62.	Bookmarks: 0	Are Stock Market Prices an Accurate Reflection of the Value of Your Stock Portfolio? In order to trade and make money in the markets - either stock or commodities one should have a basic idea of determinants of share valuation prices. Actual logistics , standard procedures and rules as well as human nature and greed all play major roles. Consider this as part of the mix when evaluating purchases and sales of your securities. Timing , perceptions and even sometimes luck play major roles in your quest for your eventual fortune awaiting you.
63.	Bookmarks: 0	Against The Top Down Approach To Picking Stocks If you have heard fund managers talk about the way they invest, you know a great many employ a top down approach. First, they decide how much of their portfolio to allocate to stocks and how much to allocate to bonds. At this point, they may also decide upon the relative mix of foreign and domestic securities. Next, they decide upon the industries to invest in. It is not until all these decisions have been made that they actually get down to analyzing any particular securitie...
64.	Bookmarks: 0	Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all mistakes result in monetary losses. Compounding the problems that investors have managing their investment portfolios is the sideshowesque sensationalism that the media brings to the process. Avoid these ten common errors to improve your performance:
65.	Bookmarks: 0	Stocks vs. Bonds: Differences and Risks In the world of investments, you’ll often hear about stocks and bonds. They are both feasible forms of investment. They allow you the opportunity to invest your money with a specific company or corporation with the possibility of future profits. But how exactly do they work? And what are the differences between the two?
66.	Bookmarks: 0	What You Need To Know When Trading Derivatives And Futures Hello Fellow-Investor.The Derivatives and Futures Market is the most potentially profitable market in the world. But it can be the most distructive one too!DerivativesA derivative is a financial term for a specific type of investment from which the price over a certain time is derived from the performance of the underlying asset such as commodities, shares or bonds, interest rates, exchange rates or indices like stock market index or consumer price index.This ...
67.	Bookmarks: 0	Wealth Management Solutions-Options Abound! Wealth management is a difficult concept to grasp for many people, especially in terms of investment and savings for the future. With options like stocks, bonds, 401K’s, 529’s, and more, choosing the right wealth management option can be tough at best and impossibly confusing in many circumstances.
68.	Bookmarks: 0	Tips to Build a Successful Portfolio Walking through the financial maze of stocks, bonds and mutual funds can be quite a challenge. American Century Investments offers the following tips to give you the know-how on building a profitable portfolio.
69.	Bookmarks: 0	The Benefits of High-Yield Investment High-yield investment can turn out to be very rewarding for investors. Although there is a certain amount of risk involved in high-yield bonds investments, they can also be very profitable for investors if they are targeted towards companies that have the potential to recover from their financial instability.
70.	Bookmarks: 0	Less risk with foreign bonds Foreign bond funds are ideal for investors seeking income and diversification. Foreign bond funds, as their name suggests, invest in bonds that pay their interest and principal in a currency other your home currency. Foreign government and corporations issue these bonds.
71.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Basics: Don't forget about bonds You should consider investing in bonds for both income and stability. In any given year equity markets could appreciate in value by 30 to 40 percent or decline in value by the same amount. Bonds fluctuate far less. Bonds also pay interest on a regular basis and thus investors will receive a cheque each month or quarter.
72.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Invest Wisely And Make Your Money Grow Wise investments of your spare funds can be a great way to grow rich. These days, savings accounts offer very low interest and it is a waste to allow your money to lie in them. Based on your appetite for risk and your financial needs, you have various other investment schemes and options to choose from. It is always safer to have a diversified portfolio, that is, to spread you money around in various types of schemes, so that the risks and returns get balanced out. The co...
73.	Bookmarks: 0	High Yield Investing Is Like A Game Of Poker We often get newbies emailing us asking whether or not investing in HYIP's is worth the time and the risk. This is a great question and the short answer is "it all depends". First of all, the main question you must ask yourself before investing in any HYIP is: "Do you plan on investing money that you will definitely need in the future?" In other words, is your life going to be made worse off if you lose the money that you plan to invest? Unlike secure Stocks, Bonds, and o...
74.	Bookmarks: 0	Higher income from high yield bonds To understand high yield bonds, let's define what a bond is. A bond is an interest-bearing investment that obliges the borrower to pay a specific amount of interest for a specific period of time and then at maturity to repay the investor the original amount of the loan. High yield bonds are bonds issued by corporations. These companies pay interest rates higher than those of top quality government or corporate bonds to attract investors.
75.	Bookmarks: 0	4 Tips to Build a Successful Portfolio Walking through the financial maze of stocks, bonds and mutual funds can be quite a challenge. American Century Investments offers the following tips to give you the know-how on building a profitable portfolio.
76.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Performance and The Working Capital Model (March, 2008) The Working Capital Model (WCM) approach to portfolio performance evaluation eliminates the tears and fears because it is based on more than the current market value illusion of wealth--- a number that won't sit still long enough to ever be meaningful. Market value, within the WCM, is used only to determine what to buy and/or when to take profits.
77.	Bookmarks: 0	Asset Allocation: Investing by the Numbers If you focus exclusively on market value, dwell upon comparisons of your unique portfolio with the market averages, expect performance of some kind during specific time intervals, and listen intently when someone speaks about the future, any asset allocation work you do will be ineffective.
78.	Bookmarks: 0	Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all mistakes result in monetary losses. Compounding the problems that investors have managing their investment portfolios is the sideshowesque sensationalism that the media brings to the process. Avoid these ten common errors to improve your performance:
79.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Soars 24% thru July 2009 The Investment Grade Value Stock Index is a barometer of a small but elite sector of the stock market. Some Investment Grade Value Stocks are included in all averages and indices, but even the Dow Jones Industrial Average includes several issues that are below Investment Grade and very few boast an A+ S & P rating.
80.	Bookmarks: 0	Good News For Income Investors Looking for good news in today's markets is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Needless to say, practically all investment grade equities and nearly all closed end funds that specialize in providing regular recurring monthly income have been reduced in market value by this prolonged correction.
81.	Bookmarks: 0	Calculating Your Investment IQ The keys to successful investing are Asset Allocation using only two investment buckets: Equity and Income, and the development of realistic expectations about their market value performance.
82.	Bookmarks: 0	Filling The Investment Education Void With Web Workshops Appreciating Basic Risk Minimization Techniques. a) Understanding the purpose and use of Asset Allocation; b) Developing appropriate security selection criteria; c) Establish diversification and income rules; d) Adopting downward flexible profit taking guidelines.
83.	Bookmarks: 0	Stock and Bond Trading Powers Modern Asset Allocation (January 2008) Trading does not have to be done quickly to be productive, and it doesn't have to focus on higher risk securities to be profitable. And perhaps most importantly, it doesn't have to avoid the interest-rate-sensitive income securities that are so important to the long-term success of any true investment portfolio.
84.	Bookmarks: 0	Asset Allocation for Foundation and Endowment Investment Portfolios - Part 2 (February 2008) One can only speculate about how much "Bubble Paper" finds its way into the these portfolios, but nearly all of them are managed by the major brokerage firms, and all such firms bonus their brokers on the basis of product sales. It is not uncommon for Wall Street to re-write the syllabus for Investments 101, redefining Quality, Diversification, and Income to suit its own dark purposes.
85.	Bookmarks: 0	Asset Allocation for Foundation and Endowment Investment Portfolios - Part 1 (February 2008) One can only speculate about how much "Bubble Paper" finds its way into the these portfolios, but nearly all of them are managed by the major brokerage firms, and all such firms bonus their brokers on the basis of product sales. It is not uncommon for Wall Street to re-write the syllabus for Investments 101, redefining Quality, Diversification, and Income to suit its own dark purposes.
86.	Bookmarks: 0	The Real Scoop on Annuities - Part Two (March, 2008) Today, it's difficult to distinguish one financial institution from another as they compete for the ever-growing pool of investment dollars. Insurance companies, now publicly owned, have become am integral part of an industry that seems uninterested in protecting anything other than their obscenely paid leaders.
87.	Bookmarks: 0	The Investment Gods Are Angry (January 2009) Today's obsession with short-term blinks of the investment eye is Wall Street's attempt to take the market cycle out of the performance picture. Similarly, total return hocus-pocus places artificial significance on bond market values while it obscures the importance of the income produced. WCM users will have none of it; the investment gods are angry.
88.	Bookmarks: 0	Crisis Investing - Three-Pronged WCM Strategy (January 2009) Unfortunately, investors in general are a lot like teenagers. They know everything immediately; expect instant gratification; take unnecessary risks; fall in love too easily; ignore all voices of experience; prefer the easy approach; and feel that the lessons of the past just can't possibly apply to what's going on now. Duh, dude!
89.	Bookmarks: 0	Stock Market Corrections Are Beautiful - And Necessary (April 2009) The reality of corrections is one of the few certainties of the financial markets, a reality that separates the men from the boys, if you will. If you fixate on your portfolio Market Value during a correction, you will just give yourself a headache, or worse.
90.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Performance Evaluation Re-Evaluated: Part One (April 2009) The Working Capital Model (WCM) looks at investment performance differently, less emotionally, and without a whole lot of concern for short-term market value movements. Market value performance evaluation techniques are only used to analyze peak-to-peak market cycle movements over significant time periods. In the WCM, market value is used as an expectation clarifier and an action indicator for the portfolio manager.
91.	Bookmarks: 0	Investment Scam Alert 2009: Spread the Word (August 2009) An envelope arrived yesterday from a worried investor (not a client of mine) in Appleton, Wisconsin. He had been contacted with an "investment partner" opportunity touting a "guaranteed investment program" that would absolutely "double and triple his money every sixty days" with no worries, work, or risk involved.
92.	Bookmarks: 0	What is romance? I would say that romance is a feeling of deep attachment and affection that goes beyond all known human bonds. Romance can not be easily defined but only experienced. One who has never felt romantic will never understand about romantic feelings. Lucky are those who fall in romantic love.
93.	Bookmarks: 4	Mixed Love Relationships Have a Certain Special Spark Mixed love is a fantastic example of how true love conquers all as it breaks the bonds and rises above discrimination, alienation, and disapproval.