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February 11, 2020 Personal 10 Comments

12 Budgeting Tips for New Parents

November 20, 2018 ETF 10 Comments

Is It Time To Buy TIPS ETFs, Mutual Funds?

Is It Time To Buy TIPS ETFs, Mutual Funds? … investments in TIPS ETFs or mutual funds. Why? I rely on individual I Bonds and TIPS, held to maturity, to fill my allocation. Yet, I can understand that this investment style isn’t for everyone. Continue reading at seekingalpha.com How Investors Face Inflation With TIPS [See: […]

November 24, 2017 Personal One Comment

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business Sometimes, people who aspire to be business owners have this idea that they’ll pitch their idea, get millions of dollars in funding and start spending money like pro athletes. But, if they’re anything like the average American, they’ll have an … Continue reading at msn.com Curtis […]

November 1, 2017 ETF 4 Comments

3 Tips for Building a Socially Responsible Bond Portfolio

3 Tips for Building a Socially Responsible Bond Portfolio one investment at a time.” [See: 7 Socially Responsible ETFs for Investors of All Stripes.] The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment estimates that $ 8.72 trillion was invested in socially responsible investments through the end of 2015. Continue reading at money.usnews.com VictoryShares Introduces High Dividend […]

October 31, 2016 ETF No Comments

TIPS ETFs May Be Better Alternative to Treasuries

TIPS ETFs May Be Better Alternative to Treasuries “TIPS are for winners.” Pacific Investment Management Co. and Goldman Sachs Asset … With inflation expectations rising, ETF investors have turned to TIPS options. Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, are a type of Treasury security … Continue reading at etftrends.com BlackRock: TIPS Make More Sense Than Treasuries […]

August 12, 2016 ETF No Comments

Time May Be Prime For TIPS ETFs

July 31, 2016 Large Cap No Comments

Three Tips for Investing in Biotech Stocks

Three Tips for Investing in Biotech Stocks The pipeline is driving earnings. Barron’s noted earlier this year that RBC is optimistic about Q1 earnings for several large-cap biotech stocks, among them Celgene. As Money Morning’s Tremblay points out, while investing in biotech stocks with great … Continue reading at moneymorning.com 7 Warren Buffett investing tips […]

June 29, 2016 Large Cap No Comments

A ‘historic’ investing opportunity and other post-Brexit tips for the long term

A ‘historic’ investing opportunity and other post-Brexit tips for the long term Here are some basic moves retail investors can make while traders on Wall Street look for the Brexit dust to settle: Credit Suisse is telling clients to look beyond the fear in headline-grabbing large-cap stocks and turn focus to smaller companies. Continue reading […]

"People the world over are losing faith in politicians, and currencies," says Marc Lubaszka, President/CEO, World Financial, a highly successful investment firm specializing in precious metals based in Studio City, Calif. "This has resulted in a flight to gold and other precious metals, a storehouse of value for more than five thousand years. Investors are taking their money out of paper assets, and putting it where it is likely to earn a better return in uncertain times."

"The housing bubble will burst rather than gradually deflate, following the rapid and violent pattern of decline of nearly every financial bubble throughout history," Lubaszka says. "Higher interest rates negatively impact not only the health of the housing market but other economic segments as well. The stock market takes a hit because higher rates make it more costly for companies to pay for debt. Higher rates hurt corporate profit margins and reduce stock value, bad news given the deep debt situation so many companies are in today."

Past performance is no guarantee of the future. You have probably heard this disclaimer a thousand times before, but it is really important to understand. Most rating systems have little to no predictive element in them. It's natural to think that the best performer of the past will be the best performer in the future. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Just think about it; if it were that easy, investors would just continue to buy last year's winners knowing that they will be this year's winners. And that seldom works.