The News Review:
- Madoff Scandal Casts Light on Investment Advisers
- First Quarter Investment Review
- Fool’s School Are Your Kids Investing?
- Your nce-in-a-Lifetime Investing pportunity
- ‘No-Risk’ Insurance at FDIC
Madoff Scandal Casts Light on Investment Advisers
New York Times
Flatto the trustee of Fairfield’s investment portfolio in Connecticut with Jennifer Carpenter an aide. He says experts he paid for advice did not warn him of the Madoff risks.
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First Quarter Investment Review
Washington Post
Does your advice consider the very real possibility of the U. dollar moving towards a collapse with the consequences of massive inflation? I guess the underlying question to all of this is does your advice really vary much (other than slight variations on a balanced portfolio) when dealing with real world situations that we may or may not have experienced before?Jeff Mortimer: The most dangerous words in investing are "its different this time. " The world has had many issues before and will again. It is important to study history and learn from it knowing that it will never repeat exectly but should be somewhat similar. The best advice to always follow must be based on sound research and time-tested strategies two traits which don’t change whether the Dow is at 14000 or 8000. _______________________Arnold Md.
Fool’s School Are Your Kids Investing?
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(“half”); Posted on Tue Apr. 7 2009 Fool’s School Are Your Kids Investing? Getting your kids to eat vegetables isn’t enough. Give them a financial head start by introducing them to investing. With time on their side they can reap great benefits from the magic of compounded growth. Try playing and experimenting together:(1) Build a mock portfolio. Have your kids list companies that interest them. If they look around their home classrooms the mall and on TV they’ll see firms such as Nike Microsoft Coca-Cola Kraft Foods Apple Wal-Mart McDonald’s Kellogg Disney PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson.
Your nce-in-a-Lifetime Investing pportunity
msnbc.com
Homebuilders such as MDC Holdings (NYSE: MDC) and KB Homes (NYSE: KBH) are in a world of hurt. In addition even the strongest automobile titans including Toyota are feeling the impact of the credit crunch while weaker ones like Chrysler teeter on the edge of collapse. But investment banks and financial institutions — the largest and fiercest players on Wall Street — were literally ground zero for this implosion. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
‘No-Risk’ Insurance at FDIC
New York Times
They are for example “nonrecourse” which means that if an investor loses money he owes taxpayers nothing. It’s the closest thing to risk-free investing — with leverage! — around. But as we’ve learned the hard way these last couple of years risk-free investing is an oxymoron. So where did the risk go this time?To the F.