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Should I buy gold to protect against a dollar collapse?
Should I buy gold to protect against a dollar collapse? No, you should not buy gold for fear of a dollar collapse. As the video…
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Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis
Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis In September 2008, the brokerage firm Lehman Brothers collapsed due to risky trading in poorly designed securities. This kicked…
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With interest rates low, should I buy dividend paying stocks instead of bonds?
With interest rates low, should I buy dividend paying stocks instead of bonds? No. Dividend-paying stocks are stocks not bonds and cannot be counted on to…
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Preparation is key to financial success
Preparation is key If you have ever attended a closely-matched sporting contest and witnessed a buzzer-beating shot in basketball, an extra inning baseball game, or…
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What will the market do now?
With two one-day declines of 1,000+ points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently, the media is full of people asking and answering the question,…
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Which presidential candidates will be good, or bad, for the markets?
We should all treasure our right to vote and exercise that right with great forethought. You, our clients, are intelligent, well-educated, patriotic Americans who…
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Why rebalancing can help when markets decline
Markets are quick to react to change and current events causing them to rise and fall frequently and sometimes substantially. This summer’s double digit decline…
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Why investng in global markets is important
In times of calm, the rationality of a prudent, long term strategic plan is pretty obvious. However, we can easily be forced out of our…
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Is it better to leave a 401(k) account with a former employer or roll it over to an IRA?
Making News… We produce regular Q&A columns for Florida Today and MarketWatch, a personal finance website of the Wall Street Journal, as well as pieces for Financial Advisor magazine and Nerd Wallet among others. Here is…
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Can I just live off interest?
Making News… We produce regular Q&A columns for Florida Today and MarketWatch, a personal finance website of the Wall Street Journal, as well as pieces for Financial Advisor magazine, the Journal of Financial…
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Will a stock market correction ruin my financial plan?
September 2014 “With the stock market at an all-time high, a devastating correction is imminent.” This is a common warning these days that has some…
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Are investors fleeing stocks?
April 2014 At any given point, there are things that could move markets significantly. Events in Ukraine come to mind currently. What is happening there…
