By Glenn Ruffenach When it comes to retirement planning, women need to “out-plan” men. That’s the lesson at the heart of a new report from the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University. The study asserts that women – given the unique financial risks they face during their working years …
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I have issues with much of the criticism about ObamaCare (or however you spell it). I've been involved with health insurance, how its designed, how its priced, how it has changed, how it has become abused, etc., for almost 40 years now. Yes, there will be some problems and unexpected consequences, but by and large, …
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By Mark Williams Gold is losing its glimmer. Last month, gold prices dropped more than $300 an ounce – the largest short-term fall in more than 20 years. This suggests that a decade-long bull market is ending. Gold’s recent volatility is spooking investors and destroying demand. The last bull market for gold ended in 1980, …
There are three basic investment principles to which I adhere and one realization. The three principles are: 1. Seek to minimize losses; 2. Seek to minimize fees; 3. Diversify. Diversification can mean different things to different people. To me, it is not a blind "spread it across all asset categories" approach. Although this is what …
I tried to promise that I would be loss gloomy going forward but it’s turning out to be a difficult task. One positive thing we have going for us is the investment platform that I started using for virtually all clients in the past couple of months. While market crashes are always traumatic, if you …
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By George Magnus, author of Uprising: Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy? Financial markets have had a torrid summer of breaking news about slowing global growth, fears over a new western economic contraction and the unresolved bond market and banking crisis in the eurozone. But these sources of angst have triggered turbulence …
Lin Yifu, a chief economist with the World Bank, says maybe. Many financial advisors, working to help their clients accumulate enough money for retirement, are painfully aware of the investment risk associated with the “lost decade” that Japan suffered through recently. The sagging economies of the developed world still account for 60% of the combined …
Every now and then I come across something that helps makes sense of the world around me when all the pieces seem disconnected. These are things over which I have absolutely no control, yet all play a role in our lives. In my case as an investment advisor, they influence my clients financial success, and …
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