by RCD-DEV | Jul 3, 2012 | Finance
Leave It To Beaver Sir John Templeton was a pioneer in global investing. He started his first mutual fund in 1954 – many decades before foreign stocks and before investors were comfortable with the idea. It would take forty years for Modern Portfolio Theory, which...
by RCD-DEV | Jun 8, 2012 | Finance
Before It’s Time When I ask investors to define risk, you think it means losing all your money with no chance to recover the funds. I think risk is the change in the value of your investments at certain intervals of time. Risk is seen differently based on...
by RCD-DEV | May 3, 2012 | Finance
Our Propensity To Predict Why is it that we are so – gullible, fascinated, obsessed – with forecasts? Jason Zweig writes in his book, Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich, asserts that there is a human compulsion to...
by RCD-DEV | Mar 30, 2012 | Finance
We Never Let Go A recent article in the Wall St. Journal shared the story of a stock mutual fund manager who maintains a buy-and-hold investment philosophy. Like him, every investment professional must adopt a philosophy for making investment decisions. The question...
by RCD-DEV | Mar 8, 2012 | Finance
The Mistake Of A Lifetime Human behavior is interesting. Sometimes we get so anchored in our thinking that we miss the long-term big picture. One of the best examples of this is our thinking about our financial decisions and age 65. Conventional thinking is that...
by RCD-DEV | Feb 17, 2012 | Finance
Wasting Away Remember around 1980 when money market funds earned as much at 17% per year? Compared to the paltry rates we see today, the interest rates of the late 70s and 80s seem fantastic. We yearn for the chance to get higher rates on bank CDs and cash...
