Month: February 2009
Feb 27, 2009
Watch this video on YouTube This is not a “happy talk” column, suggesting all you need to do is hold on and things will be back to normal in 12 months. This is “real talk” on what you can be doing now to make sure you weather the coming years in as good shape as...
Feb 24, 2009
This is the best perspective I’ve read on the current situation and addresses what I’ve been noticing in my research: it’s possible to have good yields and returns even in bear markets. For example, a diversified portfolio over the past 10 years has...
Feb 20, 2009
Watch this video on YouTube Watch this video on YouTube Based on the phone and email response to my recent article on annuity abuses, I am a hero with the Joe the Plumbers of the world and something worse than a goat with many annuity salespeople. A number of them...
Feb 13, 2009
Watch this video on YouTube Those who are the hardest hit by the market losses of the last few months are retirees. For many investors, there is time to recover from these losses. In five or ten or fifteen years, the markets should have come back and their nest eggs...
Feb 10, 2009
The markets responded today to the passage of the stimulus plan, backed by the President and majorities in Congress, and the Obama Administration’s bank bailout plan with a complete lack of confidence, falling 5%. Many investors fear that President Obama and...
