I am remiss for not posting these every week. Some you like to time the market and this report from J.P.Morgan is perhaps the best summary to help your decision making:
Category: Investing Money
The Biggest Bubble in Human History
My Comments: The word “bubble”, in the context of investments, has come to mean a time when values are overstated, and many people are going to suffer financial disaster. The classic examples include the Tulip Mania, where in February 1637 in Denmark, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income …
Mister Dow 5,000 Strikes Again!
My Comments: My habit is to post a blog every Monday about investments and retirement planning. My intent is to help educate you about the forces out there that will influence how your money will grow in the years to come. Among the writers I’ve come to revere over the years has been Nick Murray. …
J.P. Morgan Weekly Market Recap – August 27, 2012
For those of you who pay attention and want to time the market, here’s this weeks best summary:
2 in 3 Women Are Uncomfortable With Their Financial Situation
My Comments: I saw this headline on an email from a source that see people like me as their target audience. It's from a company that creats insurance products such as life insurance and annuities for prospective clients. None of this is bad; I rely on such sources to keep me aware of changes going …
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J.P. Morgan Weekly Market Recap – August 6, 2012
For those of you who pay attention and want to time the market, here’s this weeks best summary:
Alternatives Becoming Mainstream
My Comments: Two years ago I began trying to understand what appeared as a new class of investments. Over my 40 year career as a financial consultant, stocks and bonds in all their many variations formed the basis for investment decisions. Over that time, stocks and bonds tended to be relatively uncorrelated, meaning their ups …
A Modern-day Depression: The Current Secular Market Cycle Mirrors the Past
My Comments: This article is further confirmation that these are not “normal” times. My efforts to help you manage your money cannot follow the traditional “buy and hold” approach that worked in the eighties and nineties. If you expect to have more money in the future than you have now, you have to be either …
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Is Another Lost Decade on the Horizon?
My Comments: This article, which appeared in a recent issue of “Producers Web”, an online magazine that caters to the investment and financial planning community, affirms what I have been telling clients and prospective clients now for about five years. Namely, that we are looking at another 5 – 8 years of essentially sideways movement …
J.P. Morgan Weekly Market Recap – July 23, 2012
For those of you who pay attention and want to time the market, here’s this weeks best summary:
Helping Define Your Financial Future 