The News Review:
- Firms show caution in Russian investing
- Fear can force better investment planning
- Templeton Global Income Fund (“GIM”) Announces Dividend and …
- NHL Free Agency: Which Team Made the Best Long-Term Investment?
- ETF Investing: Buy-and-Hold vs. Moving Averages
- Why Investment Community Needs to Evolve
- Rydex|SGI Continues Expansion of Alternative Investment fferings …
Firms show caution in Russian investing
Marketplace
companies announced new investments in Russia. Jeremy Hobson reports why some companies are still cautious about investing.
Fear can force better investment planning
Chicago Tribune
It would provide about $24440 a year to live on plus annual inflation adjustments. For $40000 a year roughly a $1 million nest egg is necessary. But that would mean investing about $3300 a year. If you feel you can’t afford to save much start small–even at 1 percent of your salary–and increase it with every raise or windfall. If you save nothing by your early 30s instead of saving $3300 you will have to stash about $6500 to get close to $1 million. If it’s your early 40s it will take about $14500 a year. To maximize your savings put them into a 401(k) at work.
Templeton Global Income Fund (“GIM”) Announces Dividend and …
SYS-CN Media (press release)
Municipal securities generally pay interest free from federal income tax. The Fund’s primary objective of high current income and its secondaryobjective of capital appreciation as well as its other investmentpolicies restrictions and tax diversification requirements remain thesame. Investing in municipal securities involves risks such as the issuer’sinability to make interest payments and repay principal. Changes in anissuer’s financial strength or in a security’s credit rating may affect asecurity’s value and thus impact Fund performance. In addition thesesecurities can be impacted by events in the states and territories thatissue them which may include economic or political policy changes taxbase erosion state constitutional limits on tax increases budget deficitsand other financial difficulties and changes in the credit ratingsassigned to the state’s municipal issuers. The Fund’s investment manager is a wholly owned subsidiary of FranklinResources Inc. (NYSE: BEN) a global investment management organizationoperating as Franklin Templeton Investments.
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NHL Free Agency: Which Team Made the Best Long-Term Investment?
FanHouse
1 bviously players have more value than just their offensive production. Hossa for example is a strong two-way player that can make a positive contribution in the defensize zone to go with his offensive output. But let’s face it when you’re investing nearly $7 million per year (or more) in the salary cap era you better be receiving goals and points. Let’s start with the good: Nash and Hossa. Contract talks between the Blue Jackets and their franchise player Nash got off to a rocky start when the 25-year-old power forward.
ETF Investing: Buy-and-Hold vs. Moving Averages
NASDAQ
ne performance system may hold the key to beating buy-and-hold investing. The 10-month Moving Average Crossover (MAC) system is an investment strategy that beats buy-and-hold in absolute [.
Why Investment Community Needs to Evolve
Seeking Alpha
I have a quote taped on the inside of my notebook from the Science and Technology section of The Economist dated February 7th 2009 that says “what seems to be going on is that everyone instinctively feels compelled to copy the others rather than making an independent assessment of the situation. ” The article was about evolution. Are we as an investment community here in the United States of America taking this Crisis in US Financial Credibility as an opportunity to evolve? r are we doubling down on the groupthink that got us in this mess? Consider the following Bloomberg headline this morning (#2 in terms of stories read as of 530AM EST) “Stocks il Metals Drop on Economy Concern; Yen Dollar Gain. ” Does that even make any sense? If you believe that global currency markets are lagging indicators maybe… but the entire notion that long term interest rates (10 year US Treasury yields) and the US Dollar strengthening off its lows in the last 3-days is a lagging indicator doesn’t make any sense to me. Currency markets are leading indicators. With the SP500 having corrected -5. 3% from her YTD high of 946 if you are still in the Depressionista camp and you are following the perpetually negative stance of Alan Abelson you might even believe that unemployment is NT a lagging indicator.
Rydex|SGI Continues Expansion of Alternative Investment fferings …
SYS-CN Media (press release)
Morgan Core Commodity-Investable Global Asset Rotator Sigma Long-ShortTotal Return Index — an index which seeks to capitalize on rising andfalling commodities prices. “We’ve seen that financial advisors are increasingly turning toalternative investments like commodities for their historically lowcorrelation to traditional stock and bond assets” says Richard Goldmanchief executive officer of Rydex|SGI. The new Rydex|SGI fund can provide exposure to up to 14 different commodityconstituents (up to seven long and up to seven short) including naturalgas gasoline heating oil lead Brent crude oil WTI crude oil wheatsoybeans corn copper aluminum nickel silver and gold. Long and shortpositions are determined by the rules of the fund’s underlying index whichevaluate the historical price trend (and the consistency of the trend) ofeach index constituent. The index is rebalanced on a monthly basis andfeatures a built-in risk management mechanism that reduces exposure duringperiods following high historical volatility. “Commodities have shown the ability to provide significantdiversification(1) benefits to an investment portfolio particularly duringa rising inflationary environment” says Sanjay Yodh managing directoralternative investments at Rydex|SGI.