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Post-Election Politics: The 30-Year Mission

by P.J. DiNuzzo                                                                                        November 7, 2012 One of the most interesting aspects of every presidential election is the inevitable post-election trauma suffered by the roughly 50% of Americans who supported the unsuccessful candidate.  Those of us with long memories will recall Americans vowing they would leave the country after George W. Bush won the disputed 2000 […]

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Client Article: Negotiating A Path Away From the Edge

by P.J. DiNuzzo                                                                              November 20, 2012 We’re hearing a lot about the fiscal cliff in this post-election time period, and surprisingly, considering the angry partisanship of the campaign, some of the news is encouraging.  The White House and Congressional leaders, elected officials from both sides of the aisle, are saying that they believe they can […]

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2012 – Year End Market Review

A Year of Anxiety (And Excellent Returns) Many of you reading this will be surprised to discover that 2012 was a great year to be an investor.  Amid the unhappy headlines, anxiety over America's finances, a highly-partisan presidential election, worries about the Eurozone and the potential for recession, stocks quietly rewarded patient investors with double-digit […]

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The Fiscal Cliff Act

by P.J. DiNuzzo                                                                                January 5, 2013 The Fiscal Cliff Act Unless you were living on the moon this past week, you know that Washington policymakers finally reached a so-called "fiscal cliff" deal that avoids a sudden return to tax rates that are now more than a decade old.  But for some reason, news outlets have […]

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The Fallacy of Predictions

by P.J. DiNuzzo                                                                                 January 8, 2013 The Fallacy of Predictions Paying yourself first (saving), paying off debt, developing a Financial Plan, managing your long-term Retirement Income Plan, implementing accurate Asset Allocations, relying on Efficient Market Theory, and investing by Indexing your portfolios are some of the most important variables in personal finance and investment success, yet […]

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2012: Another Dismal Year for Active Managers and Market Predictors

by Jay D. Franklin              Friday, January 11, 2013   "It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts." – Benjamin Graham, Source: The Intelligent Investor At Index Funds Advisors, we often counsel investors to avoid a “prediction addiction” and to especially avoid listening to the pundits who […]

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Economic Forecasting and Market-Timing: Stay Clear of It!

by Jay D. Franklin Friday, January 18, 2013 Anybody who watches CNBC during market hours gets treated to a litany of economic predictions and their expected impact on market prices. Quite often, you will hear from two different pundits with opposite points of view about the direction of the economy, yet both sound completely reasonable, […]

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What Some People Will Do to Beat the Market!

by Jay D. Franklin Wednesday, January 23, 2013 While hedge funds as a whole have failed to deliver their investors a higher return than T-Bills1, there are a few that have provided above-market returns. One of them is Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital, which is now the subject of an ongoing FBI/SEC investigation of insider trading […]