I’ve written before about real estate investors emailing or approaching me at conferences to question my position on the definition of a truly diversified real estate portfolio. Usually, they’re newer investors who haven’t seen the stock market or whatever type of investing it is that they focus on do what all types of investments do […]
This Is The Surest Way To Prosper In The Face Of Current Grim Realities It appears that the stock market is finally waking up to the grim reality... Even with all the government stimulus, the road to full economic recovery will be a long and difficult one. Meaning, stocks at these levels are way overvalued, especially [...]
What Should You Be Invested In Right Now? Not This... As some countries in Europe and some states in the United States begin reopening for business, the long-term impacts of shutting down global economies are being debated by experts and amateurs alike. The U.S. stock market, as tracked by the S&P 500, is still down [...]
What “QE4” Means For Global Investors—My #1 Prediction For 2020 Since the Great Recession, every major stock market move has come on the back of a central bank intervention. In March 2009, markets bottomed out when the Federal Reserve announced the massive expansion of its QE1 (quantitative easing) program, and they reached their peaks in [...]
Stocks You Really Should Not Own As The U.S.- China Trade War Heats Up You’ve got to give it to Trump. He’s a tough negotiator… and not afraid to deliver on his threats. I’m impressed. It takes a lot of courage to walk away from high-level negotiations the way he has done almost nonchalantly. I’d [...]
3 Keys To Profits In The Current Market How many times has someone tried to sell you the "secret" to successful investing? Or entrée into some get-rich-quick scheme? Or whispered in your ear about "winning" indicators? If you're like me, then you've stopped counting... and you know that the investing game is neither quick nor [...]
Why 2019 Is The Year I’m Getting Out Of Global Real Estate As a New Year's exercise last year, I ran the numbers for a rough comparison. I was wondering how the US$50,000 I had invested in real estate 20 years prior and rolled over in series into new properties over the course of ensuing [...]
Over the weekend I read one of those Q&A articles in a mainstream financial publication. A reader had written in to ask how he should invest a windfall of US$250,000. The answer was typical mainstream financial advice that boiled down to: Determine your level of risk tolerance based on your age and then allocate some […]
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