5 key principles to investing that build wealth
The Portfolio Guru preaches the gospel of income investing, but investing seems to be a foreign concept to the financial media. Turn on the TV and you will surely be bombarded by talking heads debating...
View ArticleRectifying real estate
If the government is correct and unemployment is falling, then we can expect real estate prices to rise as the warm rays of the employment horizon reach the unemployed, underemployed and the millions...
View ArticleIs there really a ‘real risk-free rate of return?’
In today’s world of lower GDP growth rates and sovereign governments with revenue funding problems, there is a term used by many pundits to describe risk. It means different safe investments to...
View ArticleWhen bad things happen to great companies (or how to explain mediocrity)
Recently, Apple and Google have seen selloffs of 15%. Blame it on disappointing earnings, fiscal cliff or pre-election trepidation. Is it time to buy the dip and add these two technology bellwethers to...
View ArticleSave yourself — learn from my investing mistakes
As an investor, I’m a work in progress. I’m a better investor than I was in the past, and I hope to become an even better investor in the future. It’s one of the enjoyable things about working in the...
View ArticleThe price of paying attention
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” ~ Herbert Simon When you...
View ArticleForget fiscal cliff, East Coast port strike is real danger
Would most people really care about the euro-zone crisis if the stock market had already crashed? Would anybody be reporting on China’s hard landing if Chinese products could not even be imported into...
View ArticleWater investments: the secular bull run
Overview A United Nations resolution of July 2010 has recognized “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all...
View ArticleThe other side of technology: the software business
For all the stories about declining PC sales, rise of smartphones, Web 2.0, and Cloud computing, an often missed discussion is on the other side of the industry: the computer software business. It’s...
View ArticleVoting open in final round of contest
The column entries from our six finalists are posted and voting is now open in our contest to name the second annual World’s Next Great Investing columnist.
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