Building your portfolios with low-cost, tax-efficient ETFs is a smart strategy but don't set it on auto pilot. Follow these 10 ETF investment rules to build a global portfolio that will beat the benchmarks.
Read More »Should You Invest In Index Funds? Warren Buffett Thinks So
9 years ago, Warren Buffett made a $500,000 bet that a simple index fund would outperform an actively managed hedge fund run by expert investors and it did for one or more of the 3 reasons outlined in this insightful article.
Read More »What You Need To Know About Investing In ETFs (+2K Views)
Whether you’re already an ETF investor or have just been hearing about them, you may be curious to know more or understand them better. Here are 5 questions (and brief answers) to help you get started.
Read More »All Gold & Silver ETFs Are NOT the Same: a Lease vs. Own Comparison (+4K Views)
I have always been leery of the two big exchange traded funds, SLV and GLD, because they lease the gold and silver that they sell you. I much prefer the ETFs SGOL, CEF, PSVL and PHYS which actually own the gold and silver they sell you and store it for you segregated vaults. Words: 717
Read More »Protect Yourself From Inflation With Gold & Other Precious Metals Funds (+3K Views)
Investing in some form of precious metals is the preferable way to protect oneself from rising inflation/decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar and here are 10 ETFs and ETNs and 5 mutual funds to do just that. Words: 879
Read More »Leveraged ETFs are NOT for the Faint of Heart (+2K Views)
If you’re a day trader — someone who watches the market minute-by-minute and closes out your positions every evening — then leveraged ETFs can be a great tool. They can also be useful over longer periods if you know what to expect and watch your ETFs like a hawk, or if you have someone trustworthy watching them for you. Words: 574
Read More »The Pros and Cons of Inverse ETFs (+3K Views)
Stock market can go down as well as up but I have some good news on how you can actually protect yourself from losses while making money if the markets plummet! Words: 701
Read More »5 Tips for Trading ETFs (+2K Views)
Follow these five trading tips and you’ll be surprised how much your results can improve. Are they magic? No, not at all. You’ll still have plenty of ups and downs but good trade execution is still a very important step for more active investors. Words: 994
Read More »All Gold and Silver ETFs are NOT Created Equal! Here’s the Best (+4K Views)
Whole oceans of ink have been spilled detailing the good and not-so-good points of the closed-end fund CEF (Central Fund of Canada) and the twin ETF's GLD (SPDR Gold Trust) and SLV (iShares Silver Trust) funds. My goal here is to distill the salient points down to the fewest words possible to help make your due diligence task somewhat less...well...tasking. [Let's go!] Words: 650
Read More »ROE/Current Ratio of These 5 Stocks Suggests +20% Return This Year!
This post examines 5 small cap stocks that are financially sound investments with profitable track records. Each has an above average Return on Equity, a current ratio above 2 and, to top it off, each has a consensus analyst expectation of a 20%+ return for investors in 2017.
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