How do you Use Asset Allocation?
Asset allocation is crucial as we said last week. However, we want to immediately challenge modern asset allocation theory. “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I […]
How Much Do Bonds Suffer When Interest Rates Rise?
Bond pricing is important to understand when interest rates are rising. We’ll continue our discussion by focusing today on rising rates and then moving to falling rates…
Asset Allocation for Beginners
What is the best asset allocation for you? After ripping apart bonds, perhaps we should look at the big picture. Solomon planted the seeds for this important topic 3000 years ago…. “Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether […]
Pricing Bonds for Profit
It’s important that you understand how bonds are priced if you’re considering owning one or more of them. In its purest form, the way a bond works is simple to understand. However, most people never own a bond in this way, so it becomes important that you understand how they are actually priced in the […]
Does Your Investment Depend upon the Current Market Conditions?
Is the market which you are looking at investing into on a roll? Are you betting on this continuing? Might that be your undoing? Today, we’ll continue looking at methods of due diligence. It is human nature to see big gains being made in a market and feel left out of all the money making. […]
Merry Christmas!
We wanted to stop for a moment from our financial writing and wish you and your family a wonderful and joyful season worshipping the Lord. God is the Creator of family and it is through this institution which He teaches us. He gave His only begotten Son unto death in order that you and I […]
Foreign Bonds & Emerging Market Bonds
Foreign Bonds or Emerging Market Bonds, which is better? The United States is obviously not the only country which issues bonds. You can buy foreign bonds issued by other industrial power governments as well as foreign corporations. As mentioned previously, you have currency risk when you go outside the US Dollar with your investments, but […]
Do You Have Control over the Return for your Investment?
Which of the characteristics which will generate the return on your investment do you control? Is the investment active or passive? What happens is the investment spins out of control? Do you have any ability to right the ship? Or could the investment destroy the capital you’ve invested while you sit helplessly by watching it […]
Is the Fed Printing Money?
Printing money? We’ve been telling you for a year that it could destroy our way of life and that our Government, Wall Street, & particularly The Fed are trying to get us there as quickly as possible. A week ago, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central pointed out one of the many lies and incompetencies of […]
Types of Bonds
What types of bonds can you invest in and how are they different? As we’ve been alluding, there are many types of bonds, including: municipal, US government, foreign government, corporate, mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities, and agency bonds. Preferred Stocks are also very similar to bonds and in fact are much more similar to what we’re […]