There’s nothing that makes both a parent and a child more uncomfortable than having that inevitable and unavoidable talk when they reach that certain age. But there’s also nothing more important than knowing if your kids are doing it regularly.
Investing doesn’t have to be an uncomfortable topic. It’s smart to start early and do it [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) just adopted new rules to their oversight of money market funds — revisions that include increasing credit quality, improving liquidity, shortening maturity limits, and requiring the disclosure of a fund’s actual “mark-to-market” net asset value, known as a “shadow NAV,” on a delayed basis.
This SEC action grows out of [...]
Government debt, also known as Treasury securities or simply “Treasuries“, are the debt financing instruments of the United States Federal government issued by the United States Department of the Treasury through the Bureau of the Public Debt. Simply described, Treasuries are IOUs for money the government borrows from investors in order to pay it’s bills.
According [...]
It’s the holiday season, it’s cold outside, you’re tired, and you’re prepared to relax and spend some time with friends and family. But, this is also the time of year we need spend time to prepare ourselves financially.
As TIAA-CREF writes in their November 16th Market Monitor (pdf):
It’s hard to overcome inertia.
Circumstances change — [...]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been given the go ahead from the SEC to make it’s BrokerCheck service records of final regulatory actions against brokers permanently available to the public.
Previously, a broker’s record generally becomes unavailable to the public two years after he or she leaves the securities industry and is therefore no [...]
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What’s On The Horizon?
As often as I try to encourage amateur individual investors like myself to embrace independent financial analysis and to make their own investment decisions, as a previous commenter with a vaginal problem shows, there are still those who’ll regurgitate what them deem is credible information in an attempt to convince us that someone else has [...]