Investors

3 Potential Bubbles for Retail Investors

The “everybody’s a real estate mogul” era started innocently enough, with a distaste for the stock market after the dot com meltdown and an incredibly long stretch of time with 1% interest rates. The leap from trading up in house size to using home equity loans for financing boat purchases certainly didn’t take very long. …

About That Hedge Fund Renaissance You Were Told Of Yesterday

For some reason, yesterday I heard the soundbite that “Hedge funds are back!  On pace to have their best month/quarter/year since blah blah blah” repeated at least a dozen times. Absurd.  I can think of several high net worth people I’ve spoken with in just the last few weeks that would give up a firstborn…

About That Public-Private Fund For Retail Investors…

Disclaimer:  My commentary below is strictly a relaying of publicly-available news from major publications.  I have absolutely no interest in being responsible for anyone’s investments who reads this website without doing their own homework. OK, I had to satiate the gods of regulation.  Now that it’s just us adults, I thought I’d discuss yesterday’s news…

Sell in May and Go Away…I just may, eat some hay, and lay by the bay

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2454003&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Should investors heed the phrase “Sell in May and Go Away” this year? If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last 30 years or so, its that any advice that rhymes is guaranteed to be true and is automatically good to follow.  Think about it: “Beer before liquor, never sicker” “An apple…