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Winter Is Coming For 60/40 Equity-Bond Investors

Investing is not easy and never has been. However, the healthy performance of bonds and equities over the past 30 years has certainly helped reduce...

Understanding Asset Volatility: Diversify At Your Own Risk

In “What Me Worry” I noted that the closely watched VIX equity volatility index (INDEXCBOE:VIX) was at a level of investor complacency rarely seen....

January 2016 Stock Market Review: The Bear Awakens?

The first month of 2016 is now in the books and it was just plain ugly for most financial markets. As many commentators noted this...

Diversified Investors Faced Historically Tough Year In 2015

So just how tough has it been for diversified investors in 2015?  Think about it, stocks and bonds are flat, cash makes you nothing...

Portfolio Diversification: It’s Time To Challenge Conventional Wisdom

In the investment world, the game never ends… the score simply changes. And at the moment, traditional portfolio diversification, the type you’ll find from...

Investing In 2016: Ways To Prepare For The Year Ahead

One of my favorite television shows right now is The Blacklist on NBC. The main character in this spy thriller, Raymond Reddington, is prone...

Is It Time To Reduce Your Stock Market Exposure?

That is a great question. And one that only you can answer. To some extent, your level of stock market exposure depends upon your...

International Investing: Time To Buy Or Play Defense?

The international marketplace has been teeming with activity lately as Greece grapples with insolvency, the China stock bubble bursts, and peripheral nations feel a...

The Downside Of Long-Term Buy And Hold Portfolio Diversification

There are many different ways to invest, including using a strategy that involves portfolio diversification via ETFs and/or mutual funds. For example, we recently...

5 Investing Lessons From The Russian Crisis

When we looked around the world at the end of 2014, there were some obvious and mature market trends in place. I say mature...

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