John Crudele, a columnist at the New York Post, has a strong column today. In his column, he points out that financial advisors may be barred by the SEC from contributing to political campaings ---- except for miniscule amounts. ...
Ah, the barbarous relic, the one that lay dormant for 20 years in the 1980s and 1990s (think strong dollar), has been on a tear. Are your clients asking you to chase it? Have you missed the run? What kind of exposure and how should you play it...
Regular readers know that I have favorite analysts that I follow and post excerpts from. One of them is Brad Hintz, a former Lehman CFO and a senior analyst at Bernstein Research. Recently, Hintz asked: Will a Rising Tide Lift All [Brokerage]...
Are your clients coming back into the equity market or are they still scared out of their minds? Our friends over at MFS mutual funds have released additional findings from its Investing Sentiment Survey today, showing that Mass Affluent investors...
Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, rebuts the argument that euqity market performance is not correlated to GDP growth over the long term. O'Neill says: ...
I forget who said it, but it went like this: The trouble with a democracy is once the people understand that they can vote for someone who will raid the public till for their personal gain, why, the government goes bankdrupt. Read more about it...
