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How Much Is That Bond in the Window?
This article explains how the bond market trips up small investors. From the Wall Street Journals: Personal Finance Blog. Read Article Here... Written By: Jon Light
Bond-Fund Stars Fall as Bets Backfire, but They Fight On
It's been a tough year for bond-fund stars. Longtime outperformers in mutual-fund rankings Dan Fuss, co-portfolio manager of the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund at Loomis Sayles & Co, and Michael Hasenstab, portfolio manager of Templeton Global Bond Fund and co-director...
How to find a good Financial Advisor
You spend a lifetime working hard and saving for goals like buying a house, retiring and sending your kids to college. Most experts recommend hiring a financial adviser to help you reach those goals, yet how do you find someone you can trust? Rest of article here......
Dark Days: 10 Money Moves to Make Now
The markets are waking up to the inevitable. In Europe, Greece is bust -- the country's short-term bonds yield more than 100%. Here at home, the economy is slowing, Washington is paralyzed, and the Fed is out of bullets. How much worse will it get? Will the markets...
What Job ‘Training’ Teaches? Bad Work Habits
Last Thursday, President Obama proposed new federal jobs and job-training programs for youth and the long-term unemployed. The federal government has experimented with these programs for almost a half century. The record is one of failure and scandal. Read More...
Pimco’s Gross Has “Lost Sleep” Over Bad Bets
In recent weeks, Pacific Investment Management Co. founder Bill Gross says he has "lost sleep" over an ill-timed bet on Treasurys. During an interview at Pimco's Newport Beach, Calif., headquarters, Mr. Gross, manager of Pimco's Total Return Fund, the world's biggest...
4 Secrets to Happiness in Retirement
Retirement isn’t necessarily a happy time for people. Just 60% of current retirees say that their retirement is “very satisfying,” according to research by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Nearly one in five retirees say that they are...
El-Erian: Making Sense of Thursday’s Violent Market Selloff
Technical factors played a role in Thursday's unsettling market moves, including the disorderly across-the-board collapse in the price of risk assets in the final hour of trading and the related surge in U.S. Treasury's. But they were not the cause. Rather, they...