Category Archives: Investing

How to invest in Stocks – Kiplinger’s method

As long time proponents of market efficiency, we are still amused by the investment methods that keep getting regurgitated. They tend to fall under two main camps: The Charting methods, that analyze past performance and try to find trends, and the Fundamentals method, which analyzes various companies and determines which is undervalued. Of these two, [...]

Notice to All Investors

If you enjoy investing in the stock market every now and then, especially if you consider yourself none too bad at it, and definitely before you start telling your friends what to invest in and what not to, we would like to point out an article in Businessweek dealing with taxes. Here they explain how [...]

Brave New Paradigm

For this generation of investors, the paradigm that is ingrained is the concept of “boom times, crash, boom time restarts”.  The United States stock market is returning to relatively new highs due to the rally in stocks that has made some investors feel that “happy times are here again”.  This has created the psychology that [...]

Another Fools’ Recap

Since we mentioned our Fools Being Dumbagents article last week, we thought we should probably give a recap of how the investments are going. As a recap, Motley Fool’s CAPS is a website where investors can gather to rate stocks. Each member can rate a stock, and say whether they think it will outperform or [...]

The (Asset Management) World is Flat

A new website called Kaching is featuring the possibility to invest in a novel way: Everyone can now automatically make the same investments that their favorite money managers make. This is assuming, of course, that their favorite money managers are part of Kaching. We have mixed feelings about this site. It seems to work like [...]