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Delaying gratification
June 25th, 200908:40 AM ETBy Mark BillerThe New Yorker magazine recently ran an article on the researcher behind "the marshmallow experiment." I think we've mentioned this in SMI before, but for those who aren't familiar, the experiment consisted of giving a preschool child a single marshmallow with the instruction that they could ring a bell at any time and eat it, but if they could wai... -
Everything you ever wanted to know about mutual funds - 2009 edition
June 11th, 200909:24 AM ETBy Joseph SlifeI guess you could call me a data nerd. I like to pore over charts, graphs, and tables. And such things are abundant in the Investment Company Institute's just-released 49th edition of the Fact Book on the mutual-fund industry. (ICI is the mutual fund trade association). I realize that information on such things as "Characteristics of Mutual F... -
Banks now vs. tech in 2002
May 08th, 200909:02 AM ETBy Mark BillerHere's an interesting Barron's article comparing the behavior of the banking sector today to that of the tech sector back in 2002. As you likely recall, tech led the bear market down from 2000-2002, whereas the banking sector has been the primary culprit in the current bear market. Particularly noteworthy is the author's emphasis on the ... -
In pursuit of higher returns, some advisors taking more risk
May 06th, 200901:19 PM ETBy Joseph SlifeUnder pressure from clients unhappy with their returns, "a small but growing number of financial advisers" are abandoning their traditional approaches to investing and are dabbling in different - and in many cases riskier - techniques, the Wall Street Journal reports. Buffeted by steep declines in stocks, many bonds, commodities and real es... -
Why Wall Street Will Rarely Tell You When it's Time to Sell
April 09th, 200911:12 AM ETBy Austin PryorIt can cause your local broker to call you, pitching a stock you've never heard of. It can cause one of your holdings to swing 10 percent in a day when no news is announced. Its availability may even cause you to choose one brokerage over another. "It" is the infamous analyst research report. Analyst research drives many of the investment dec... -
Have we been to the bottom?
April 02nd, 200910:45 AM ETBy Joseph SlifeMarket performance has been pretty good lately (yesterday being a strong exception), but James Picerno at The Capital Spectator isn't so sure we've seen the bottom of this bear market yet. [T]he rally this month has drawn power primarily from a new round of hope that Washington's various experiments to right the economy will finally hit pay...
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