There's a good reason for that. Previous generations did not have the kind of easy access that today's investors enjoy. If an investor in the 1980s wanted to purchase a stock or a mutual fund, he or she typically would call a broker, who would check company-genera...
High Interest Rates Are A Net Positive For Personal Finance Enthusiasts For those of you who've been reading and listening to Financial Samurai for a while, you should appreciate this high-interest-rate environment. It won't last forever as I think we'll eventually revert to our 40+-year t...
“Hate” might be too strong a word, even if it did get you to click on this article. I don't hate total bond market index funds and ETFs (TBM). It can even be a reasonable component of asolid investment portfolio. It's just not my preferred bond option. Considering that a total ...
investors are wary of the economic recovery in some countries, such as india and... a deep dive in china’s sector winners despite health crisis august 2020 we recognize a growing number of uncertainties taking a toll on the outlook for the world economy, which in our vi...
not doing that great today. But most REITs own commercial properties that depend on people being able and willing to go places. So, when you look at just some of these numbers, and these were at 12:30, so they might have changed [laughs] by the time you are hearing this. Just some...
Why did Starwood Property Trust purchase GE Capital's project finance loan portfolio? Well, obviously management thinks that it will make money on it. For one thing, as I just mentioned, the acquisition is expected to be accretive to Starwood's core earnings. Further, the transaction comes ...
despite big drops in the stock price. I wrote that I was convinced that the stock price would rise again and it did, reaching $54.24 in June of this year. The stock price problem seemed to have been solved. But with the recent slump in Chinese stocks and the big drop after the earnin...
Today's Options Market Update The major indexes grinding higher after today's read on consumer price inflation came in as expected and did not change outlook for Fed rate cuts next week. Futures Looking to the Futures Bitcoin futures continues to trade near its all time high of $1...
“Shut up! What I did was to invest in a good index fund,” he said. “And why did you do that?” I asked. “You see, the index fund will keep my money safe as the returns won’t depend on the whims and fancies of the fund manager while my money will grow in line with the...
We consume today more electricity that we did a decade ago and everything seems to indicate that will just keep growing and growing for at least a couple of decades more when population growth will start to go into negative numbers and so that trend will slow down. ...