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Retirement Advice for Twenty Somethings
I thought i will put this up as well. Its a good article that its not all about saving and not having fun. its finding the right balance in life.
From Portfolio.com:
A reader writes:
As a “younger investor” myself looking for ways to
retire with millions (we can all dream), I’ve been trying to start
early and doing my [...]
The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds
ETFs are a great tool for the average investors. Well, they are fantastic tools, if you live in the US. For Singapore folks, there are ETFs listed on SGX as well as HK stock exchange to choose from as well.
Here in an audio interview at financial sense, the author explains
What are ETFs
What are active ETFs
How [...]
Timber Agg 2:How to invest in timber
The best way to describe my feeling after reading this second article is like buying that candy and realise it didn’t taste that well to awful.Here George Nichols outline that in truth, timber investing is but a myth for the average investors. The ETFs and the REITs out there are not pure play in these [...]
Timber Agg 1: Introduction to Timber Investing
Here we at Investment Moats, we hope to to discover good asset classes or instruments that are obscure to most investors, especially Singaporean Investors.I first heard about timber sometime back but didn’t really follow up on this since I thought this is just another agriculture. Little did i know it is very wrong. In this [...]
Why Index Investing Isn’t Passive Investing
An important article as a reminder that proponents of index investing painted alot of advantages of it over active investing. However, the main advantage that i see is drastically low annual cost compare to active funds. If you buy and hold indexes, your returns will depend on how well the index does, which eventually means [...]
DBA Is Full-Up
Want to know how big the commodity boom is? The PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF—or DBA—is basically full.
More accurately, the fund-which invests in commodity futures contracts-has reached its position limits in some of its commodities.
The commodity exchanges and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission set maximum amounts that certain investors can hold in individual commodities. DBA’s assets [...]
Warren Buffett: Low Cost Funds win out
Many people have argued about whether it is right to pay large fees for supposed outperformance. I think buffett sums it up best in simple logic:
Everyone expects to be above average. And those helpers – bless their hearts – will certainly encourage their clients in this belief. But, [...]
Yale’s David F. Swensen: Keep It Simple
One of the top endowment managers in US gives his tips on the decisions one should take in the current financial situation:
Don’t try anything fancy
Stick to a simple diversified portfolio
Keep your costs down
Rebalance periodically to keep your asset allocations in line with your long-term goals
Investment Building Blocks Recommended:
Index Funds
Exchange Traded Funds
Other Low-Cost Instruments
Swenson’s Proposed Allocation:
30% [...]
Are Market Trends Effectively Random?
By Larry Swedroe
Sun Tzu is an honorific title bestowed upon S?n W?. Tzu, who lived from 544 to 496 BCE, authored The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. The book, composed of thirteen chapters, each devoted to one aspect of military warfare, has long been considered one of the [...]
Spreading The Word About ETF/ETN Spreads
Anybody who’s traded in the pits knows that futures are very versatile instruments. You can, of course, express blatant bullishness or bearishness through outright purchases or sales of contracts. But you can also take more nuanced approaches to the market by trading “spreads.”
In a spread trade, you buy one contract and simultaneously sell a different, [...]
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