We’re drawn to the idea of a safe investments because nobody likes to lose money. Over the past few years investors have turned to bonds, income stocks, and gold for safety. It paid off until now, because safe investments don’t last forever.
Where safety is concerned, the term safe investments is an oxymoron. They don’t exist. There are safer investments, though, and for a small window of time they pay off. To find them, it helps to dig into those old safe investments we’ve heard about the past few years and find out why each is no longer safe. To do that, you need to understand the risks and why investors were buying it. Continue Reading…
Investing is full of ways to make money. Yet, despite what you may have heard, there are no safe investments. Anything you put your money into has risks. Whether its stocks, bonds, real estate, a business, and even your savings account, it pays to understand the different types of investment risk involved in anything before putting your money to work.
Index funds are the most popular investment product used today. Most of those funds are based on a market cap weighted index.
Just like arguments, there are two sides to every investment. Behind that are investors reacting to news, both good and bad. When enough people believe the news, it moves prices. Sometimes that information is spot on and it warrants a price swing. Other times it’s not, yet the majority reacts anyways. That is where contrarian investing comes in.