Woman with Portfolio's Blog
By C. F. Chapman, womanwithportfolio.com Last updated: Tue Jun 2, 2009 11:40am PDT-
When I talk to beginning investors, I always emphasize the ease and relative safety of using index funds in order to diversify your investments. With index funds, you're instantly minimizing your risk and minimizing your expenses. And although your fund will follow…
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After the downturn, most portfolios are sagging badly. So I've been working up some really quick and easy workouts to help busy and beginning investors boost the fitness of their portfolios. This workout is about one of the most important and basic tools in the investing toolbox: allocation. It’s time for a quick check-up of how your investment assets are allocated.
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The sudden appearance of a new strain of influenza has become a dramatic lesson in stock market dynamics. If we apply chaos theory to the market, a cough in Mexico can cause an economic storm in Asia.
Markets in Asia and Europe dropped sharply on speculation that the outbreak…
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I’m the only person I know who has
been seriously injured while whale-watching. I wasn’t injured by a
whale, actually, but as a result of gawkers crowding onto one side
of the boat I was aboard and hogging the rail in order to view a
beckoning cetacean. I was unable to find a handhold, and so… Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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One of the things I love about the stock market is the window it opens onto the reality of who we are, without illusion, telling us in numbers what we want and what we fear. I think the downturn has required investors to look deep into our own lives and desires to see what’s really…
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The market soared like a rocket yesterday with details of the administration's bank bailout plan. Here's how it works, along with potential problems. Under the so-called "Public-Private Investment Program," taxpayer funds will help private investors leverage… Read More »
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Investors, from beginners to veterans, are looking for safety these days, as they've seen their retirement and investment accounts plummet. Many investors have been putting their money in Treasury bonds, which are a safe haven. But some economists think that regular Treasuries have actually… Read More »
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<p><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">A few days before Inauguration Day, I happened to be looking at a passage in Walt Whitman’s great valedictory poem on the death of Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” Because I was writing a story... Read More »
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<span style="color:#333333;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:11px;"><p style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#333333;background-color:transparent;">The year 2008 was the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac, and it looks as though the... Read More »
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<span style="color:#333333;">Today at the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, I’d like to offer some thoughts to fellow Shine members. <br></span><span style="color:#333333;"><br></span><span><span style="color:#333333;">If you... Read More »
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