The Housing Market… Why the Price-to-Rent Ratio is Signaling More Pain Ahead Whether you’re investing in real estate, stocks, bonds, or gold coins, you are rewarded primarily for your exposure to one thing – risk. After all, markets are only risk transferring mechanism. In the summer of 2007, I warned friends that if they were […]
In every financial planning class I need to do a post lunch session. To keep them awake I ask them to do a simple exercise – calculating how much money they require for retirement. Unless they are at least 32-33 years of age, they have no clue as to how much they need for […]
Jim Rogers (famous for: Biker and Quantum fund) in a free wheeling interview to MoneyMorning.com says some fearful things. Jim is too famous and has some Indeed, the U.S. financial debacle is now so ingrained – and a so-called “Super Crash” so likely – that most Americans alive today won’t be around by the time […]
When an insurance adviser approaches us, we are normally not in too much of a mood to buy life insurance! However, his persuasion (perhaps our awakening!) make us buy a life insurance policy. This is not a great product – we hardly get any “personal satisfaction” buying this product. We are now motivated enough to […]
Are we in a bear market or in a bull market? Frankly nobody has been able to answer this question when the market is on! 3 months or 6 months later everybody will tell you that “May 2008 to Oct. 2008” we were in a bear market, however now we are in a bull market. […]
Many of my posts are based on the Financial Planning / Mutual fund training class that I do. One question that normally people ask me about where to keep their emergency funds. I do give a variety of answers, but here is what I have done: A friend who is an investment adviser has a […]
Welcome the Bear Markets! Although we saw a furious short-term rally last fortnight, we have entered into official bear markets territory as of early this month. (In the US bear markets are defined as a drop of 20% or more from a previous high.) This is a good thing. Smart and Legendary investors understand this. […]