If Deflation Comes Where Should Your Investment Dollars Go? Gold, Bonds, Cash, Stocks?

As concerns about deflation grow, where should you go with your investment dollars?

Deflation is a sustained period of falling prices.

Some analysts recommend that investors buy bonds, which can do better during deflation.

The problem with bonds right now is that the interest rates are extremely low. There’s so little downside to rates, and if rates climb

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September 1st, 2010 | Tags: bonds, cash, cash flows, Debt, deflation, dividend, Economy, Employment, Income, inflation, interest rates, investment, investor, savings, stock market | Category: Investing | Leave a comment

Wealth: After Market Decline, Next Steps

Concerned about your wealth after the latest market drop? Don’t make drastic changes with your money.

Corrections, and even steeper drops, happen regularly. The problem with trying to time the market or guess where it’s going next is that you have to be right twice, says Sandip Bhagat, the head of equities at Vanguard. You’d have

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May 24th, 2010 | Tags: bonds, buying, equities, financial planner, funds, growth, investor, investors, market, Money, opportunity, panic, rebalance, rebalancing, risk, sell, stocks, target allocation, volatility, Wealth | Category: Investing, Wealth | Leave a comment

Investment Risks Hide in Plain Sight

Without full and proper disclosure, investors can’t make an informed decision. Even with full and proper disclosure, however, many investors still can’t make an informed decision.

Regulators still should push for better disclosure, but every investor also should rely on a standardized checklist of questions that must be answered before any purchase. Perhaps the most important:

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April 28th, 2010 | Tags: buying, credit, Housing, invest, investment, investor, investors, mortgage, selling | Category: Investing | Leave a comment

Investment Scams - Signs Investors Should Look For

Over the last market meltdown many investment scams have come to light. Many of the victims were not novice investors, but rather smart and well-educated investors. So why did they fall for these scams? There could be many reasons such as trust, greed and peer pressure, but one thing they all have in common is

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March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: investment, investor, investors | Category: Investing | Leave a comment