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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...
The Debt Crisis: If Treasury Bonds Aren’t Safe, What Is?
Wall Street Journal article written by: Jason Zweig How can you lower your portfolio's risk in a world of rolling government-debt crises? Start by taking a deep breath. Then, see if you need to do some tinkering—but not too much. Read Article Here...
Five money moves one inflation hawk is making now
Article written by: Jonathan Burton of MarketWatch This article goes over Robert Arnott's "Five Money Moves" to weather the US debt hurricane. Explaining QE2's exiting, and the expected steps that Bernanke is going to take that will cause inflation to skyrocket. Read...
Structured products ‘absurdly destructive’ for retail investors: Report
Article written by: Liz Skinner Structured notes and other derivatives products have been marketed by Wall Street as safe and secure investments. Of course, there's safe and then there's safe. Retail investors of all stripes have lost at least $113 billion by...
Ready to Retire? Here’s a Five-Year Pre-Retirement Plan.
Retirement planning, at its best, is about much more than the size of your nest egg. With that in mind, one of the smartest ways to prepare is to map out a to-do list, one that counts down to "R" day. Read More Here... Wall Street Journal Aritcle written by: Anne...
The Truth About Hedge Funds
Article written by Market Watch's Brett Arends The crisis is over. Bernie Madoff is long since forgotten. And the money is flowing once again. According to Hedgefund.net, investors pumped another $22 billion into hedge funds of all description last month, the fastest...