Category: Investing 2015
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Why Stock Market Investors Are Ruining America / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Economic inequality - the fact that a small percentage of Americans have so much more than the rest of us - has gotten a lot of press in recent months.
You are a big part of the problem.
I say that because this column is written by and for investors. Nothing exacerbates economic inequality like successful investing.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The Insurance "Game" Has Changed – and Investors Can Profit / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: It's a great day when a mega-profitable industry that sucks money out of us for services we can't live without has to change how it lines its pockets.
That day has come for insurance companies.
We've been talking at length about the new economic Disruptors that are forcing change in everything from public policy to the financial markets.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Two Stocks Offering Investors High Yields and Profits / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: It was the spring of 1985, and I was in my second year as a reporter for The Record, a small weekly published in my home county an hour north of Baltimore.
A state-chartered thrift, Old Court Savings and Loan, failed – spotlighting all sorts of unseemly behavior about the institution's insiders, as well as folks who "did business" with it. The collapse – which resulted in 35,000 depositors having their accounts frozen (some wouldn't be paid back until the 1990s) and cost the state of Maryland millions of dollars – also highlighted the dark side of financial regulation.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Investor Opportunities in the New Lending Market / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The new lending Disruptors are marching – make that rampaging – over the traditional fields and fortifications once commanded by banks.
Today I’m bringing you further proof of the powerful changes these Disruptors are driving, as well as the opportunities they are creating. And I’m also answering some pretty good questions readers posed in response to our recent reports on Lending Disruptors.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
It Takes a Different Breed to Be Contrarian / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
The most memorable scene in the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross is when Alec Baldwin’s character—a hotshot real estate broker from the prestigious Mitch and Murray agency—tells a group of struggling real estate agents that it takes “brass balls to sell real estate.” There’s probably some truth to that, but it takes bigger cojones to buy what everyone else hates.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
Alibaba Pggybank Investment Will Make You a Millionaire / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Many investors are looking at the steep skid Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) has taken since its IPO as a major cause for concern.
But for us, this is only an opportunity.
In fact, this sell-off plays right into what I told you when I put Alibaba in “The Million Dollar Tech Portfolio.”Here’s what I said at the time: “Keep buying bits and pieces regularly – whatever you can afford at the time – whenever it sells off.”
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Thursday, April 09, 2015
Five Total Wealth Stock Market Investing Principles to Use Today / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: I’ve talked to thousands of investors over the years who are absolutely convinced that they need to understand the market’s most complicated nuances to get ahead.
In reality, though, success comes down to just five things that I call the Total Wealth Principles.
Get ‘em right and you can make more money with less risk while enjoying a peace of mind that the vast majority of investors will never have. I know that sounds like a tall order, but it’s not. Or, at least, it doesn’t have to be.
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015
The Spin-Off Play at the Center of a $22.5 Trillion Market / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: I love the payments industry.
I love corporate spin-offs.
And I love the buyouts that so often follow spin-offs.
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Thursday, April 02, 2015
They'll Cry "Black Swan" While You Book Double-Digit Gains / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: According to the Fed, in retrospect, the mortgage crisis of 2007 was a black swan, an unknowable and unpredictable negative outlier event that triggered financial panic and chaos around the world.
Eight years later, these "rare birds" remain as elusive as ever to central bankers and policymakers everywhere.
Over the same time frame, worldwide debt has ballooned by 40%.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Investing From Complexity to Chaos, From a Trickle to a Flood / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: As a volatility trader, I loved seeing stocks drop 2% last week after having risen 3%. But as a credit trader and student of market behavior, I know all too well that this type of volatility is a forecast of stormy seas ahead.
Markets were disturbed last week by more evidence that the economy is weak, in spite of the fact that a steady stream of lousy economic news this year has done little to prevent stocks from reaching new highs. With first quarter GDP increasingly likely to come in at well below 1% – a number that certainly can't be blamed on the weather alone – investors are now starting to sweat.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
This Rising Interest Rates Play Could Make You a Quick 55% / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
According to Bloomberg Business, people collectively waste an hour a day on Facebook debating everything from Kim Kardashian's hair to the now infamous gold/blue dress.
After last Wednesday, I've got to wonder how much time they're going to blow talking about what Fed Chair Janet Yellen said… or didn't say.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Do This / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: DailyWealth
Chris Mayer writes: I write a lot about the virtues of buying stocks and sitting on them...
Take my "coffee can portfolio," for example. It's a simple, but successful strategy in which you find the best stocks you can and let them sit for 10 years. By committing to these safe and steady businesses, you incur almost no costs and you keep your worst instincts from hurting you.
But how about sitting still for 80 years?
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Reality Always Wins… But Never on Schedule / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Louis James, Chief Metals & Mining Investment Strategist
“Expect the worst and you won’t be disappointed” is true enough, but it’s a miserable way to go through life.
For investors, expecting the worst is paralyzing, a reason to do nothing.
But when a market gets beaten up the way the natural-resource sector has been over the last few years, pessimism comes to dominate the chatter in boardrooms, blogs, and cocktail parties the way mold takes over a shower. It’s a blight.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Conflicts Of Interest Between Governments & Retirement Investors / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Dan_Amerman
Most retirement account and other long term investors continue to follow the same financial strategies they've been following for decades, believing that the "science" of modern finance will reliably build wealth and security for them.
Meanwhile, for some years now and as a matter of openly stated policy, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan, as well as the central banks of other nations have sought to create what are known as "negative real rates of return".
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Investors Earn 6% When Others Are Losing Money / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: We're living in crazy economic times.
The race to debase and stimulate has taken us into uncharted financial waters.
Zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) are being replaced with negative interest rate policies (NIRP).
It's an upside-down banking environment that presents some serious challenges.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
More And More Americans Look To Protect Their Wealth Offshore / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: GoldSilverWorlds
Frank R. Suess writes: Every time you think the US establishment can do no more to threaten the freedom and livelihood of the very Americans who contribute the most to the prosperity of the country, they increase the heat in the furnace by a notch with more cheap money and debt, additional laws and higher taxes. America, the land of the free, as it was rightfully referred to in the past, and certainly a beautiful place in so many ways, is in the process of destroying the very foundation it was built on.
Monday, March 09, 2015
Thematic Investing Train Leaves The Station / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Anthony_Alfidi
The finance sector is always ready to entertain some new theory. The latest is thematic investing, which can mean just about anything. A handful of asset managers and consultancies have think pieces telling institutional clients how to make this work. Do a Web search to read them yourselves. I poked around a number of reputable sources tracking thematic investing to see what's missing from the discussion.
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Thursday, March 05, 2015
How to Safely Collect 12%-15% Yields Outside the Stock Market / Housing-Market / Investing 2015
By: DailyWealth
Dr. David Eifrig writes: Today, I'm going to share a little-known way to collect 12%-15% yields...
These yields are safe... and they don't require you to buy any stocks, bonds, or options. They're a great way to diversify your income portfolio and reduce exposure to stocks. However, most people don't even know they exist.
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Monday, March 02, 2015
How Investors Can Identify the Best Small-Cap Stocks / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Sid Riggs writes: Since the October 2014 lows, the Russell 2000 (the broadest measure of the small-cap sector) has gained 18.09%.
To put it mildly, small-caps have absolutely been crushing the broader market over the last four-and-a-half months. Too bad the mainstream financial media would rather spook investors with the "what-ifs" of what is going wrong domestically and abroad.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Investing Inertia Won’t Keep Your Cash Safe / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Dennis_Miller
A dear friend asked for help—the sort of help you might need too. She’s retired, lives alone, and has a modest nest egg. But the thought of losing any of her life savings terrifies her.
Let’s call my friend “Sally.” Sally doesn’t trust stockbrokers or any commission-based investment advisors, and she confided that all of her money is in a cash account, earning 0.01% interest.
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