Retirement Investment Digest

Is your company’s performance hurting your retirement account? Do you have more than five percent of your retirement holdings in the stock of the company you work for? If so,…

A new year of mutual fund performance tracking has begun. The funds leading the best mutual funds of 2008 list are quite the opposite of last year. Out with the…

If there were ever a year to consult a book about the psychology of money, 2008, thus far, is one of them! Take a look at the psychology of investing…

With the turbulence of the market in ‘08 thus far, some might steer towards gold, bear funds, money market funds, bond funds or international investments, but regardless of the type…

Hopefully by now you’ve started your tax paperwork. If so, you’re probably thumbing through a lot of paperwork and wishing you could toss some of it. Don’t be discouraged, I’ve…

If you thought the market has been scary so far in 2008, it pales in comparison to the 10 worst market crashes ever. Let’s hope today’s federal funds rate cut…

Perhaps you are a “stock picker,” a company loyalist, a non-believer, or a non-investor. Whatever the excuse, it is time to overcome the mental hurdles stopping you from becoming a…

The stock market is down somewhere between 8 and 11.5% depending on your favorite benchmark, mostly due to recession concerns. When this happens, many investors run for the sidelines or…

There’s an Ancient Greek saying, “Know thyself and thou shall unlock the mysteries of proper investment risk exposure.” Okay, not really, but knowing your risk tolerance and risk capacity are…

According to the Financial Research Corp. of Boston, Vanguard, Fidelity and American fund families now represent 37.5% of the money held in 10,000+ available mutual funds. One-third of every new…