Journal Report - Small Business, Feb 8, 2010
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Hear writer Dale Buss discuss 'Mompreneurs' and how a small group are trying to shake up the baby food industry.
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Journal Report - Investing in Funds - Feb 1, 2010
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Hear Wall Street Journal News Editor Karen Damato discuss the changes that have taken place in how financial advisors get paid and how that can affect your portfolio.
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MMM-174: Money Talk
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Harry Browne. Etymotic ear phones are sturdy. Sortino Ratio. GURU Richard Maybury. Broken Window Fallacy. Hybrid School Bus. Economics of Recycling. BRK/B split 50:1. Bing cashback. No deer. TOOL: Readability. I ENCOURAGE you to Download this show thru iTunes! But, if you just cannot deal with that then go ahead and Play [...]
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It’s iPad!
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
Just a quick post to review the predictions I made and how well they turned out. Name: iPad (Ding!) Size: 9.7″ (Ding! I said 10″) Form Factor: Basically a large iPod Touch (Ding!) Home Button? (Ding!) Aluminum back? (Ding!) Buttons and holes: headphone (Ding), microphone (Ding), volume (Ding), mute (Ding), sleep (Ding) USB port? (Bzzzt!) Only has Apple dock. But that serves [...]
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Journal Report - Business Insight, Jan 25, 2010
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Plenty of companies say that they want a diverse set of directors on their boards but many are stymied by the personality conflicts that can rise from a heterogeneous group of people. Hear the Journal's Jennifer Merritt and IMD Business School Professor Jean-Francois Manzoni discuss why sussing out personality ahead of time can help to limit conflict on a diverse board.
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MMM-173: iPad Predictions
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
The devaluation in Venezuela. Lazy Portfolio analysis. The Riskcog.com portfolio analysis tool. iPad predictions. I ENCOURAGE you to Download this show thru iTunes! But, if you just cannot deal with that then go ahead and Play the new show right now Topics in this week’s show include: The devaluation of the bolivar in Venezuela. Randy Stonehill’s [...]
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Time To Talk Tablet: iTablet, iSlate, iBook, iPad
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Take your pick of names but we are all awaiting the next holy product to be announced from Apple. After “The Jesus Phone” which had people literally weeping in their seats upon its unveiling, the Apple Table is set to be the next revolutionary gadget that we didn’t realize we couldn’t live without. I have [...]
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Longer Term Look at Gold in a Portfolio
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
The previous post looked at the effect of gold in a portfolio for the 10-year period 1990-2009. Some may say that 10 years is not statistically long enough to be meaningful. So in this post I take a look at the 38 years from 1972 through 2009. To start, I selected a widely-followed portfolio of stocks [...]
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Portfolios: Gold or No Gold?
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
Should a portfolio own gold? I am on the quest to obtain the definitive answer to that question. Here are the results of one exercise in which I take a model Vanguard portfolio and compare it with the same portfolio with a 25% allocation to gold for the time period 1999 through 2009. Here is the [...]
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Lazy Portfolio 2005 – 2009 Return vs. Risk Chart
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Let’s go back and gather up the gains for 2005 and 2006 to add to our analysis with this chart. As you can see, the Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio still has the best “top-leftedness” of these select Lazy Portfolios. It had an annualized return of 8% with an annualized standard deviation of 8.8%. That results in [...]
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Journal Report - Investing in Funds - Jan 6, 2010
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
The Manning & Napier Pro-Blend Maximum Term Series holds the longest current streak of beating the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index topping it for the 11th year in a row in 2009. Hear Patrick Cunningham, a managing director of Manning & Napier Advisors, discuss the benchmark-beating fund and some of the stocks in its portfolio with Karen Damato of The Wall Street Journal.
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MMM-172: The Year We Make Contact
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
The Gift Card Store. Lazy Portfolios analyzed. Cheap Gas! 2010 (the movie). The tax on gold. End the Fed. I ENCOURAGE you to Download this show thru iTunes! But, if you just cannot deal with that then go ahead and Play the new show right now Topics in this week’s show include: Bruce Cockburn’s Making [...]
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Risk vs Return Chart 2007 – 2009
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
Here is a chart that sort of goes with the previous posting’s table. I have taken just a few of the portfolios of interest and computed their standard deviation for the time period of three years. Then plotted their ANNUALIZED return on the Y axis vs. their annualized standard deviation along the X axis. Remember that [...]
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Lazy Portfolio Results for 3, 2 and 1 Years
Mad Money Machine (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
Here’s an early look at how the professional Lazy Portfolios have performed for the past 3, 2, and 1 years ending 31 December 2009. These are cumulative returns, with dividends reinvested. Data comes from Yahoo! Finance into my spreadsheet. There may be errors in the data. Some funds may not yet have reported dividends for [...]
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The Journal Report - Encore, December 19, 2009
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 12/19/2009
Group medical appointments are gaining in popularity and experts say that, if enacted, universal health insurance coverage could lead to even more group medical appointments as doctors struggle to care for the newly insured. Hear Wall Street Journal's Anne Tergesen discuss shared medical appointments with Dr. Alan Glaseroff, Chief Medical Officer of Humboldt-Del Norte Independent Practice Association...