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The TRACK-RECORD Trap

When it comes time to choose a mix of funds, the investor or plan administrator is usually given only two pieces of information: The disclaimer that “Past performance is no predictor of future results” The past performance of each of the funds … Continue reading

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Myth 4 – The Cost of Investing

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The History of Booms and Busts

The intro to this video sets it up better than I could… “When an economy falls into a recession, we typically observe a cluster of people making similar investment mistakes. According to historian Stephen Davies, these investment errors occur because … Continue reading

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Companies Work for YOU.

In an article sent to me recently by a client, Burton Malkiel, author of many books including A Random Walk Down Wall Street, makes the following statement about corporate earnings (read it twice if you need to): “…the structure of U.S. … Continue reading

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Double Dip cannot be predicted.

If you think back two weeks ago, all the economic data (and therefore the talking heads on TV and internet news sources) pointed to and propagated the fear that our economy was fragile and was headed (almost surely) for a … Continue reading

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