Investing

If you're nervous about investing in the stock market, you're not alone. Stock ownership in the U.S. is down, and a recent poll indicates that frightening memories of the last bear market may be to blame. If that sounds like you, here are 4 suggestions for overcoming your concerns.

The next five years will be challenging, and investors need to have their eyes wide open. Here's why and how to invest accordingly.

As Baby Boomers exit the workforce and increasingly move into retirement, this monumental demographic shift will exert enormous pressure on interest rates, bond prices, and equity market valuations. It’s going to be a huge wakeup call.

the time is now to diversify into gold. All markets cycle, and a down-cycle for stocks and an upcycle for precious metals is on the doorstep. Take some of your profits and buy some undervalued gold.

How do you know when you're investing like a grown-up and not like a kid? This article presents the 5 investment moves that prove you're finally a grown-up.

Maybe now isn't the right time to jump in with 70% of your portfolio, but surely having 0% of your portfolio in the market is the wrong choice. Go ahead and put a little money in and set up some sort of automated investment so you're continuing to put money into the market regularly over time.

Anyone who is not prepared to take a contrarian view today, risks to be a real victim in the next 5-7 years.

Dr. Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist for Dundee Wealth Economics and one of the smartest gold minds around, outlines below his nine bullish arguments for gold.

If wealth preservation investors get out of their stocks and buy silver, they are likely to avoid the most massive wealth destruction in the next few years. Let me explain.

In mining exploration, an “anomaly” is a geological formation that might attract a prospector’s interest. However, one rule of thumb is that you have to look at 1,000 anomalies to find one prospect and fewer than one prospect in a thousand turns into a mine. In other words, finding a mine is a million-to-one shot and that is one reason why junior mining stocks are highly speculative. Another reason is that it’s much easier to launch and promote one of these stocks than it is to build a profitable business. So junior mines attract more than their share of unscrupulous operators and stock promoters. Words: 504