Strategies

This article offers 8 suggestions on how to make investing a little easier. Most of the concepts are hardly new but bear repeating because they have proven to be VERY important in my experience.

Some market participants may be looking to heed the advice of the old market proverb "Sell in May and Go Away". The question this article seeks to answer is whether this calendar effect is spurious, or whether this is something readers should heed.

There has been very little interest in investing in foreign stocks over the past decade but that was a mistake. Had you invested in the cheapest 25% of countries based on the CAPE ratio from 1993 to 2018 you would have tripled your money compared to investing in the S&P 500.

This is a critical point for investors and, while it's difficult to know what's in store for any coming decade, it's not impossible to know. This article explores the accuracy and reliability of 10-year forecasts and offers one of its own.

Would gold really rocket or are there other solutions available should we encounter such a disaster, negating the need for gold?

As investors adjust to a lower growth paradigm, investors may want to consider exposures that either offer limited downside protection such as minimum volatility strategies or that move less in sync with equity and bonds such as in commodities. This article identifies 4 ways investors can add targeted defensives exposures to their portfolios.

Investors owning a substantial amount of physical silver not only pay storage costs, they are missing out on interest. This report shows you how it’s possible to “rent” silver for pennies-on-the-dollar, freeing up capital to earn virtually risk-free interest elsewhere.

Learning how to short sell a stock takes practice, but it’s not as difficult (or as risky) as many people believe.

Stock buybacks are a pretty common mechanism nowadays to provide value to shareholders so it is important to familiarize yourself with the terminology and understand the impact it may potentially have on your investments - especially if you are a dividend investor.

While the economy is a vastly complex and difficult thing to grasp, you can simplify the many moving parts by boiling it down to three basic elements, or touch points, which give you a brief understanding of the health and general direction of where and how things are going.