Buy, Sell, or Hold?
Whether you hold investments or uninvested cash, you need to know when to buy, sell, or do nothing. It’s an unavoidable high-stakes decision…
Immediate Annuities – What You Need to Know But Agents Won’t Tell You
It’s true. An immediate annuity can provide dependable income that the owner-annuitant can’t outlive. But there’s at least one significant drawback- you might lose money! Read on to learn more about the pros and cons of immediate annuities.
Rescue Your Stranded Retirement Accounts- IRA Rollover Account
Now’s the time to rescue, roll over, and consolidate your retirement accounts stranded at your previous employers. This includes 401(k), 403(b) TSA, TSP, 457(b), etc. Here are five reasons why an Rollover IRA makes sense.
Invest Now. Don’t Procrastinate. Avoid Hoarding Cash.
The best time to invest is now. Avoid procrastination and hoarding cash. Remember, timing the stock market or bond, or money market is hard to do. As esteemed NY Yankee Philosopher Yogi Berra once observed, “Prediction is difficult…”
Key Financial and Tax Data Factsheet 2021
Key Financial and Tax Data Factsheet 2021. Includes tax brackets, IRA limits and more.
Does Your Financial Advisor Measure Up?
When someone claims to be a financial advisor, what does that mean? Regulatory licenses are a must-have for a fiduciary investment advisor. But what other advanced qualifications do they have? Do they have extensive education and training in investments and comprehensive financial planning?
What is a “Fee-Only” Financial Advisor and Why is it Important?
According to the CFP Board, a “fee-only” financial advisor must not receive sales-related commissions.
A life insurance agent, who accepts commissions, from an insurance agency or insurance company, for example, is not a “fee-only” only advisor. Likewise, a Series 7 Registered Representative paid a sales commission by a Broker-Dealer for selling investments.
Here’s why we believe the “Fee-Only” method of compensation to be the most transparent and objective model of advisor compensation.
Your Financial Planning To-Do-List for 2020 and Beyond
It’s a concise, useful, and all-around fantastic checklist with relevant links. Here’s Successful Portfolios’ twelve-step Financial Planning To-Do-List for 2020 and beyond. It’s a must-read for anyone serious about personal finance.
Seeking Alpha: Practical Application of Modern Portfolio Theory through Technical Analysis – Interactive Brokers
In his influential book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel makes his case for efficient market theory and passive investing all while excoriating technical analysis through straw man argument. About Beta he writes, “Beta really looks suspiciously like a tool of technical analysis in academic drag – a bastard cousin of the technician’s charts”. We believe beta looks like technical analysis because it is technical analysis as is, by extension, alpha. To whit, alpha and beta estimates can be derived solely from historical price action of securities and indices. Moreover, alpha and beta are indicators that can be effectively analyzed by charts. Most important, it is apparent to us that alpha in particular has useful predictive properties for securities selection and portfolio construction.
Rotational Trading using the %b Oscillator
Academic finance is replete with studies supporting or denying the existence of serial correlation in securities prices1. In effect, such studies test the weak form efficient market hypothesis (EMH). Simply put, can investors use technical analysis to beat the market?
