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by Steve Selengut
The first page of search engine research tells you that: “Investors use hedging strategies when they are unsure of what the market will do”— isn’t that always the case? Further along you learn that there are many different kinds of strategies, nearly all of which rely upon some sort of derivative betting mechanism.
But what is hedging all about in the first place? Read the rest of this entry »
What’s the difference between bus drivers, chefs and surgeons on the one hand, and football players, actors and Web site operators on the other?
The answer is leverage, or what Nassim Nicholas Taleb refers to in The Black Swan as scalability. Whether, and how much, to leverage is one of the biggest decisions to face in choosing a career. Read the rest of this entry »
by Steve Selengut
Many of the things you think you know about investing are part of a mythology designed to make you bounce around between investment products. Modern day “conventional wisdom” just isn’t all that its cracked up to be. Concepts you worship are inaccurate; indices and averages you trust do not tell the complete story; the basic investment concepts still work — but Wall Street won’t tell you what they are. Read the rest of this entry »
by Steve Selengut
The results are in! Roughly 260 people took the time to respond to the first income investing survey and I thank y’all very much for being so generous with your time. First, the generalizations: Read the rest of this entry »
by: Tim Paul
Reverse mortgages are hot. Baby boom demographics, inadequate retirement funding, and problems in the traditional mortgage market (pushing brokers into alternate products) have combined to make marketing of reverse mortgage products to senior citizen homeowners one of the hottest niches in the mortgage business. Read the rest of this entry »
