Your Bear-Market Protection Policy
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Remember the market collapse of 2000? Triggered by the popping of the dot-com bubble, the market took years to recover.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Remember the market collapse of 2000? Triggered by the popping of the dot-com bubble, the market took years to recover.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
This is the first trading week of 2016—and already, money is pouring out of your pockets: The Nasdaq is down about 200 points. The Dow has dropped more than 400.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
We’ll make this as short and sweet as a candy cane… 2016 is going to be a big year for you: Starting in May, the private markets will be opening their doors to ALL citizens, regardless of their income or net worth.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
My palms are sore. So are Wayne’s.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Trying to pick a single start-up that will become “the next Microsoft” or “the next Google” is pretty risky. Even wildly successful venture capitalists strike out more than half the time.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Last weekend, my fiancée and I were catching up on old Shark Tank episodes. We love to watch entrepreneurs pitch their start-up ideas to “Sharks” like Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Every year, the journal Popular Science releases a special list… It’s a list of the 100 greatest innovations of the year—from bionic arms and pain-free dentistry, to life-saving remedies that could change our world.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Last Thursday, a tech start-up called Square (NYSE: SQ) went public. For investors who got in early, when the company was still young and private, champagne corks should have been flying— After all, Square’s IPO gave the company a value of nearly $3 billion.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
For more than a quarter of a century, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has been a winning trade: If you’d invested $10,000 into the company in 1990 and reinvested the dividends, today you’d be sitting on $217,146. That’s roughly twice what the overall market returned.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The market’s had a great run recently: Since bottoming out in 2009, the Dow has more than doubled. To celebrate, Wall Street’s been partying like it’s 1999.