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Guest Post by Contributing Editor, David Kotok, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Cumberland Advisors. How do we avoid walking into a “left hook” in the markets? That was the discussion this week during a client review. “Can’t you see them coming and avoid them?” he asked. Well maybe some folks can, but the issue of [...]

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In a recent blog post, I reviewed a new book on the future of the Equity Risk Premium (ERP).  For those who are not familiar with the ERP, it is the additional return that investors expect to receive for bearing the risk of owning company stock vs. owning a low-risk asset like government bonds.  As [...]

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The recently-published book by Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu, Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing, provides a unique perspective on how to meet the challenge of long-term financial planning.  The book is well-organized into a number of steps required for identifying and organizing long-term goals and thinking through how to meet these [...]

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[Editor's note: This book was published back in 2005.]   In light of market conditions today, and what we have been through in the years since the book was published, the book will be of even greater interest to income investors today than when it was published. At the very start of this book, the [...]

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 Joseph Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and    shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change (IPCC). He is a professor of Economics at Columbia University and was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 1997-2000. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the [...]

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Guest Blog by Steve Thorpe Are you a do-it-yourself type seeking strategies to manage your retirement investments? Thousands of books, magazines, web sites, and broadcast media sources promise help, however many publications are in fact cleverly designed to market expensive Wall Street products that pay for others’ retirements – not yours! In contrast, Paul Merriman’s [...]

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