While it is never too late to buy gold one look at the current gold:silver ratio clearly suggests that silver and/or the stocks and warrants of quality gold and silver miners and royalty companies is a MUCH better buy than buying gold at its current price.
Read More »10 Signs You Have A Bad Financial Advisor (+5K Views)
There are two kinds of bad investment advisors: well-meaning advisors without the wherewithal to keep up with the science of the fast-evolving profession, and those whose main focus is not on managing their clients’ assets well, but on gathering assets under management in order to grow their own practices. How do you tell if you’re sitting across from either one of these types of bad advisors in an industry that lacks transparency? [Well, I have done just that with a list of 10 signs that you are working with a bad investment advisor.] Words: 1467
Read More »Self-manage Your Portfolio? Think Again! Here Are 10 Reasons You NEED a Financial Advisor (+4K Views)
Irrespective of any active v. passive investing debate, good advisors are an absolute necessity. Here’s my top 10 list of reasons why
Read More »A Field Guide to Lousy Investment Advisers/Financial Advisors (+2K Views)
You can easily hire people who claim to be good investment advisers but they hardly ever are. They're usually downright lousy investment advisers, and it's worth learning how to identify them and I group them into three categories: The delusional, the liar, and the secretly mediocre.
Read More »What You Need to Know About Financial Advisor/Planner Fees
Understanding how financial advisors get paid and what your advisor fees are will help you make smarter decisions about your money. Here are a few of the different ways financial advisors get paid and what you need to know about advisor fees. Words: 538
Read More »4 Tricks Some Financial Advisors Use On Their Clients (+2K Views)
Trust is obviously a huge aspect of any client relationship in the financialinvesting6 services industry, but there are some red flags people can look for to make sure their outsourced investment advice isn’t coming from a charlatan. Here are four tricks the finance industry plays on their clients.
Read More »Many Financial Advisors Are “Super-Slimy”! Here’s Why
The odds are that you will run out of money in retirement and much of the reason can be attributed to the "super-slimy" so-called financial advisors who are bleeding savers dry as they line their own pockets with excessive fees at the expense of their clients. Here are the details:
Read More »Financial Advisors: Goodbye Baby Boomers, Hello Millennials! Are You Prepared? (+2K Views)
Many financial firms that focus on older, wealthier generations such as Baby Boomers are unprepared from the coming general shift. They will have to reshape their services and message to meet the needs of Millennials.The stakes are high for both sides. Here's why.
Read More »When Should You Sell Your Gold?
The question most often asked of gold bulls is, “At what price will you take your profits?” It is a question that betrays a lack of understanding about why anyone should [want to] own gold [in the first place]. Nevertheless, the simple answer must be, “When paper money stops losing its value”. This response should alert anyone who asks this question to the idea that owning fiat cash is the speculative position, not ownership of precious metals. [Let me explain.] Words: 1184
Read More »Financial Advisors Advisory Alert #3 on Stocks and Physical Gold
If you are tired of spending hours each week surfing the net or even visiting your up-to-now favourite financial site looking for articles that are extremely informative, relatively brief and very well-written, then go no further than munKNEE.com. Here is a sampling of articles posted on the site this past week related to what is happening in the economy and the gold market and what the future holds for its price. Words: 1628
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