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Cultural Influences Affect Retirement Planning and Decision-Making: ING Study
By Michael S. FischerThe study reported that all populations found retirement planning to be a daunting task. However, Hispanics felt the least prepared, with 54% saying they felt not very or not at all prepared.
February 01, 2012
Growth With Value: Ford Draper Jr.After 40 years in the business, Ford Draper Jr. has seen it allexcept something akin to current market volatility.
February 01, 2012
Unprecedented Growth: Opportunities for MLPsThe year 2011 marked 12 months of game-changing events in domestic energy production and transportation, as companies across the globe continued…
February 01, 2012
Future Growth ‘Uneven’: Vanguard OutlookHeadwinds from the housing industry, consumer balance-sheet repair and Europesand the United States, eventuallymove toward austerity will keep GDP growth between 2% and 3%, Vanguard reported in its January 2012 economic and investment outlook.
January 31, 2012
Who Will Regulate the Regulators?Why did U.S. regulators fail to react to the alarming increases in leverage at financial institutions, or the shift of trillions of dollars of assets from banks balance sheets that were packaged into complex securities? Three former regulators propose a solution to what ails our regulatory system.
January 31, 2012
4 Categories That Describe Women Entrepreneurs’ Financial Goals, NeedsWhat keeps women business owners up at night? A study released Monday by The American College, a nonprofit educational institution devoted to financial services, found that 95% of women entrepreneurs fall into one of four categories that reflect individual confidence, different stress levels and abilities to achieve work/life balance.
January 31, 2012
Advisor Confidence Moving in Positive DirectionThis slight shift is similar to that of Spectrem Groups affluent-investor survey and the University of Michigans Consumer Sentiment Index
January 30, 2012
Hussman Warns of ‘Goat Rodeo’ for Markets With 25% LossesThe PhD portfolio manager warns that today's low earnings yields and high financial advisor bullishness "is associated almost exclusively with steeply negative outcomes."