I was teaching last night at Rollins College Retirement Planning Today® and one of the things we talked about is that there are consequences of prudent vs. poor investment philosophy and investment strategies. I spoke to this article in the WSJ in October 1st; this is a review of the third quarter. The chart on the [...]
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WSJ: Stocks Surge as Investors Flee
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Bond Bubble: The Next Financial Crisis?
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010In the late nineties we hade a stock market bubble, in mid-2000 we had a housing bubble, now it looks like we have a bond bubble. Why does it matter and should we even care? Well in the last 2.5 years we have seen a flow of $600B going into bond funds, meanwhile, during that [...]
Which Bonds Should I Own?
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010When you get conflicted advice from 2 so called experts. Who do you believe? July 9th investment news, fund managers for the Franklin Templeton fixed income he quotes, ”We do not want to be exposed to U.S. Treasuries at this point.” 4 days later, investment news once again, we have Pimco saying that they are [...]
Bond Expert Bill Gross Recants
Friday, June 25th, 2010I just about came out of my skin yesterday when Katie forwarded me an article. Let’s go back in time, go in the archives to February 2009 did a video on this exact article titled Bill Gross the seven hundred forty seven billion dollar bond man declares the death of equities. Let’s fast-forward to yesterday [...]