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October 14, 2009 |
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As investors were suffering huge losses last year and the first few months of this year, many of them despaired that good times would ever return. We never doubted that the market would come back, but we had (and still have) no way to know what a full recovery might look like or how long it might last. However, the history of the U.S. stock market is at least somewhat encouraging.
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May 21, 2009 |
While inflation is currently quite low, there is concern about the potential for future higher inflation, due to the recent massive injections of liquidity into the financial system, and the huge ongoing federal government deficits.
Federal Reserve officials would like to see annual inflation around 2 percent over the long run. Whether they could achieve this goal, even with all the tools at their disposal, remains to be seen.
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April 13, 2009 |
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Editor’s note: We have been teaching investors how to use Vanguard and Dimensional Fund Advisors funds for more than a decade. Here’s an update on how they compare.
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January 23, 2009 |
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UPDATED THROUGH 2008!
Perhaps the biggest job that any investor has is managing risk. If you take too much, you could be flirting with disaster; if you take too little, you could cheat yourself out of the returns you need to take care of yourself, your family and your heirs. In this article, updated to include results from 2008, Paul Merriman shows how to get this important equation just right.
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December 23, 2008 |
I’m writing this piece just before Christmas 2008, toward the end of a year that most investors wish had never happened. And while this topic is timely, I believe my points will be just as valid in the future as they are now.
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October 22, 2008 |
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When is being lazy good? Ask MarketWatch columnist Paul Farrell. Here are his portfolio suggestions, and how our portfolio stacks up against other buy and hold or "lazy" portfolios.
Lazy Portfolio Update
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October 16, 2008 |
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Updated November 7th, 2008
Let’s not mince words. The stock market lately has been pretty ugly. In
more than 40 years helping people with their money, I don’t think I’ve
been through a tougher period than this one. As I write this, the major
U.S. stock indexes have dropped about 40 percent in the past year.
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September 22, 2008 |
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It won’t surprise you to read that many of our clients have had a
pretty tough time with the market this year. Over and over again, we
hear from people who want to take action instead of sitting still. The
three most common things people seem to want to do are:
• Get out of the market immediately and go to cash.
• Buy commodities and commodity funds.
• Dump the “dogs” in their portfolios, the funds that have underperformed.
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February 24, 2009 |
In this update to one of the most important items in our article library, Paul Merriman shows how a series of simple but powerful concepts can benefit patient, thoughtful investors. This 2009 revision updates all reported returns to include the year 2008.
If you are a serious investor, this article could be one of the most important things you'll ever read. I'm going to show you the strategy that's behind the way we manage the majority of the money we invest for clients.
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September 23, 2005 |
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Many do-it-yourself investors want solutions they can implement once, then leave alone. Can individual investors adopt a strategy that's so good it will meet their needs from age 21 to 91? In this article, FundAdvice.com Publisher Paul Merriman and Managing Editor Richard Buck tell why they think the answer is yes.
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