Many times people will try to save money by doing their investments on their own. They spend hours studying their portfolio, and analyzing which investment bonds, mutual funds, stocks, and other products they should include. Managing your own portfolio is possible, but sometimes it is more worthwhile to hire a wealth management advisor to do…
So, you’ve got your finances in order and you’re ready to invest. Now’s the tricky part: which sectors should you invest in? It can be tough deciding which risks to take, especially when it comes to money. It might feel scary investing in sectors you don’t fully understand or know much about, but you don’t…
The dollar lost ground on Friday on the heels of the Labor Departments release of a slightly worse than expected employment report, which allowed bond prices to rally, reducing yields across the interest rate spectrum. The data eroded the value of the greenback, which saw interest rate differential move in favor of the yen and…
This is Troy’s second post here at One Smart Dollar. Check out his first one here. It’s easy to make money in bull markets. All you have to do is buy, hold, and do nothing. That’s why in bull markets, every one makes money except the perennial bears. However, what if we want to increase…
The world of financial trading is one which used to be the realm of only those with huge capital and a background in economics. Now however, it’s a method of making money that a lot of individuals are involved in, and what’s more is that they are self-taught, and invest only very small amounts of…
The 401k is one of the best retirement savings vehicles available. Not only are your investments tax deferred, but most of the time there is an employer match. Nearly everyone has access to a 401k, but many people do not take advantage of them. This is often because they do not know what to do…
In case you don’t know what an asymmetric investment means, asymmetry is the opposite of symmetry. Thus, in a “symmetrical” investment (for example, you bought stocks), the probability of those stocks going up and going down is theoretically 50-50 (hence the symmetry). Oppositely, in an asymmetric investment the probability is jiggered in your favor beforehand…