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The Gamble In Your Portfolio That You Might Not Know About
This article was originally published on Forbes on April 19th, 2018. What if there was a bet in your portfolio that you had no idea you were making? You may believe that your foreign stocks are doing well, but those high returns might be from something else. There may be another exposure unbeknownst to you…
Read MoreCurrency’s Impact on Your Portfolio: 5 Things You Need to Know Now
For almost a decade, there has been a factor that has helped boost the returns for many investors. During the past 20 years, investors have steadily increased their exposure to this factor, so that on average, more than 20% of the equity portion of all retirement accounts could be affected. Recently, though, this trend has…
Read MoreDebt Crisis – Japan
Anytime you have to redraw or resize a chart to accommodate one piece of data – a severe outlier, if you will – you have to talk about it. Since it likely means something is amiss, you ignore it at your own peril. It begs the question, then, as to why the media, economists and…
Read More2nd Home Mortgage Deduction – Which States Will Feel the Most Pain
For the majority of Americans who don’t own second homes, why should they care if the second home mortgage deduction is eliminated? With more than 11 million residential mortgages underwater, the loss of the second home mortgage deduction could have ramifications to a housing market still struggling to recover. To illustrate this point, our Second…
Read MoreDo Nothing Congress
Conventional wisdom would support the notion that the division of power between Congress and the White House should be healthy for the nation’s economic environment. However, the idea that our political leaders will find a place of compromise has not been borne out by events such as the recent debt ceiling debate. For Congress, the…
Read MoreThe Yield Drought 2.0
With Ben Bernanke’s announcement yesterday that the Fed intends to keep rates near zero for the next two years, retirees and those who depend on income from their savings remain in a yield drought wasteland with no apparent end in sight. The Glassman Wealth Services white paper, The Yield Drought – Retirees’ Greatest Challenge reveals…
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