Investment Information: Good Advice in Easy Format

Guest post by Dr. Manhattan, a lawyer in New York City who represents, among others, clients in the investment management industry. The holy grail of regulation, in my opinion, is to harness the power of private sector competition to provide, and constantly improve on, the regulation's goals.

This crisis has taken its toll on the livelihoods of many people. But it’s also making otherwise reasonable and balanced investors lose the plot and move from investing to preaching.

While online banking continues to expand rapidly, financial advising has just begun transitioning to the Web.

Through the “noise” of the year-end soothsaying contests,  Ramond James’s Chief Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut reminds us of some simple investment lessons. He specifically refers to those published by Arthur Ziekel in The Financial Analysts Journal in 1995. Ziekel at the time was head of Merrill Lynch Asset Management and penned the lessons as a letter to his daughter, as reported below.

Most of us have less than $100,000 in retirement savings, less tha

The Government-backed Money Advice Service has launched a new financial health check facility, aimed at putting people in charge of their finances. The online service promises a free and unbiased assessment in less than 10 minutes and provides a personal action plan that takes future goals into account. Help from the the Service is also [...]

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