What Does A College Plan Do For Me? [ September 2nd, 2010 ] Posted in » Financial Ideas, where to invest

Well, it does lots of things – so where do we start? OK, before the first thing :) , let’s point out that anyone can contribute to it. That is, you can be our future student’s mom and dad, or grandma and grandpa, or godparents, or just family friends wanting to give a shower gift.
That aside, what it does for everyone involved is make it possible to have enough money for post-secondary education, which goes up at a rate of about 7% every year, double the amount of normal inflation.
This happens as a result of putting together a plan well before the last minute to ensure that your goals can happen. I can’t tell you how many people Read More …

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Capitulation

Term of the Day for Monday, May 24, 2010

What Does Capitulation Mean?
When investors give up any previous gains in stock price by selling equities in an effort to get out of the market and into less risky investments. True capitulation involves extremely high volume and sharp declines. It usually is indicated by panic selling.

The term is a derived from a military term which refers to surrender.

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May 24th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Hard Assets Still Make Sense

The current Euro Crisis has given investors a chance to add commodity producers to their portfolios at cheap prices. Here are some broad ways to do that.

While the headlines focus on the problems stemming from the European Union, Greece and the rest of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), longer-term investors currently have the opportunity to pick up some good assets for cheap that could strengthen portfolios for years to come; in this case, commoditiesand hard-asset producers. Commodities overall have fallen from their highs as evidenced by broad-based funds such as the PowerShares DB Commodity Index (NYSE: DBC) sinking toward their 52-week lows amid the Euro-zone crisis. Commodities still make sense for portfolios as they are one of the main catalysts for a growing global economy.
By Aaron Levitt on Investopedia

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May 24th, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Gulf Oil Spill Collateral Damage

The publicly traded energy companies directly involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are well known, but other non-energy companies may also suffer consequences.

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May 21st, 2010 | Leave a Comment

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