3 March 2010

Wednesday Links — March 3, 2010

I feel very far behind in my readings of the Economist this week, but I kept up with the blog world a little better than usual. Let’s do some links:

Couldn’t agree more with Miranda on physical gold.  The slippage on entering and leaving physical gold is immense.
Great article by our friend Fred on green [...]

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6 December 2009

Gifts for Investment Nerds

As the holiday season approaches, we take a quick sojourn through some gift ideas for those particularly hard-to-shop-for investment dorks in our lives.

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4 April 2009

5 ETFs That Can Help Balance Your Portfolio

While I generally advocate against investing in individual stocks for amateur investors, I make some exceptions for ETFs. Exchange Traded Funds are funds that trade on the stock market like a regular stock, but represent managed funds like mutual funds.
These ETFs give you an opportunity to hedge your stock market positions and provide some balance to your portfolio fairly easily. While I would still recommend a lot of research before buying any of these, each of these ETFs gives you some ability to round out your positions.

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