Wade Slome is a CFA charterholder (Chartered Financial Analyst), a CFP® certificant (Certified Financial Planner®), and a member of the CFA Institute. He is President and Founder of Sidoxia Capital Management. Sidoxia is a full service investment management and advisory firm that provides a wide range of financial services to high-net-worth individuals, family trusts and institutions.
Online, Wade is lead editor of the investment blog, InvestingCaffeine.com and has been a contributing writer to Core Compass, Morningstar, Seeking Alpha, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, and other financial websites. Besides his work at Sidoxia, Wade has taught investment and financial planning courses at the University of California, Irvine extension department.
Wade has worked in the investment industry since 1993. Prior to founding Sidoxia Capital Management, Wade served as Portfolio Manager on American Century Investments’ largest mutual fund, Ultra, from October 2002 through August 2007. As the senior Portfolio Manager on Ultra in 2007, Wade was responsible for day-to-day trading and marketing duties. Ultra at times exceeded $20 billion in assets and was among the nation’s top 10 Large Cap Growth funds according to the assets under management during his tenure. Wade also served as Portfolio Manager on the Select fund (Large Cap Growth) for a brief period after acting as Investment Analyst on Ultra, where he covered a broad set of industries from mid-1998 through mid-2002.
Before joining American Century Investments in 1998, Wade worked as a Research Analyst at William O'Neil & Company, Inc. from 1993 through 1996.
Wade earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Cornell University (1998) and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993).
Wade can be contacted by Email or by phone at (949) 258-4322.
Become the Landlord of Your Stocks
If you are able to understand the principal concepts of how to become an effective landlord of real estate, then applying the same principles on how to become an effective landlord of your stock portfolio is highly achievable.
- 01/21/2017
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- Intelligent Investing
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Avoiding Cigarette Butts
Your investment portfolio will perform much better, if you throw away the cigarette butts and focus on identifying a market leading franchise that can sustain earnings growth.
- 04/09/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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The Traitorous 8 and Birth of Silicon Valley
Politics, economics, terrorism, and social issues may dominate the daily headlines, but behind the scenes there are daily miracles occurring due to technology advancements. Driving much of that innovation is the microchip - a product of the Traitorous...
- 03/13/2016
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- Privately-Held Businesses
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Avoiding Automobile and Portfolio Crashes
Some of the hazardous behaviors that should be avoided by those maneuvering an investment portfolio.
- 02/27/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Thank You Volatility
Great investors love uncertainty because volatility equates to opportunity. Selling or shorting into volatile euphoria and buying into panic is a time-tested, wealth creating strategy.
- 02/20/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Shoot Now, Ask Later
Could stock prices be clairvoyantly predicting Armageddon? Sure, anything is possible…but this scenario is unlikely now.
- 02/13/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Invest with a Telescope…Not a Microscope
It was another bloody week in the stock market (S&P 500 index dropped -3.1%), and any half-glass full data was interpreted as half-empty. The week was epitomized by a Citigroup report entitled “World Economy Trapped in a Death...
- 02/06/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Groundhog Day All Over Again
Stock market investors are lining up to predict whether the financial winter experienced in January will persist through the rest of the year.
- 02/01/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Don’t Do Something…Just Stand There!
The advice to “stay the course” can be very counter-intuitive to human nature. The fact is these periods of turbulence stock market are normal. Supporting evidence show we currently are not on the edge of a new recession.
- 01/23/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Winning the Loser’s Game
During periods of heightened volatility like those recently experienced, it’s easy to get caught up in the emotional heat of the moment. I find time is better spent returning to essential investing fundamentals.
- 01/16/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Going Shopping: Chicken vs. Beef
The headlines haven’t been very rosy over the last week, but when is that ever not the case? Simply put, gloom and doom sells.
- 01/09/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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Financial Markets Recharge with a Nap…Zzzzzz
After six consecutive years of positive returns in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (2009 – 2014), stock markets took a snooze in 2015, as measured by the S&P 500 and Dow, which were each down -0.7% and -2.2%,...
- 01/04/2016
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Creating Your Investment Dashboard
Navigating the financial markets can be difficult in this current volatile environment, which is why it is more important than ever to have a financial dashboard to ensure you do not drive off a cliff.
- 12/26/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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Cleaning Out Your Financial Trunk
Many investors have a problem with their scattered finances… an IRA here, 401(k) there, trust account, savings account, bank CD, insurance policy, and not to mention a slew of other spouse accounts. Is there any cohesive strategy behind...
- 12/19/2015
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- Family Finances
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- Article
Sweating in the Doctor’s Waiting Room
Investors have been nervously sitting in the Federal Reserve waiting room worried about interest rates for the last nine years (2006), which marks the last time the Fed increased the interest rate target for the Federal Funds rate.
- 12/12/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
10 Ways to Destroy Your Portfolio
As the year approaches a close, do yourself a favor and evaluate whether you are committing any of these damaging habits. Investing is tough enough already, without adding further ways of destroying your portfolio.
- 12/06/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Bargain Hunting for Doorbuster Discounts
While consumers have displayed guarded optimism in their spending plans, Americans have demonstrated the same cautiousness in their investing behavior, as evidenced by the muted 2015 stock market gains
- 12/01/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
The 10 Investment Commandments
We all commit sins, some more than others, and investors are no different. A simple periodic review of Charles Ellis’s “10 Investing Commandments” will spiritually align your portfolios and prevent the number of investment sins you make.
- 11/21/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Dying Unicorns
Today, in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, “unicorns” refer to those private companies valued at more than $1 billion. Just like the mythical unicorns, Silicon Valley unicorns are at risk of dying off and becoming a myth...
- 11/15/2015
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- Privately-Held Businesses
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- Article
Extrapolation: Dangers of the Reckless Ruler
The game of investing would be rather simple if everything moved in a straight line and economic data points could be could be connected with a level ruler. Unfortunately, the real world doesn’t operate that way.
- 11/07/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
More Treats, Less Tricks
After a few challenging months, the normally spooky month of October produced an abundance of sweet treats rather than scary tricks for stock market investors. In fact, the S&P 500 index finished the month with a whopping +8.3%...
- 11/02/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Out of the Woods?
Given recent catapulting stock prices, investor amnesia has erased the shear horror experienced over the last few months – this is nothing new for emotional stock market participants.
- 10/24/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
The Fallibility of Tangibility
Why do so many star athletes end up going bankrupt? They succumb to the allure of over-exposing themselves to costly, illiquid, tangible assets, while assuming disproportionate risk.
- 10/17/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Emerging Markets Want Cake & Eat It Too
Since the end of 2010, the emerging markets (E.M.) have gotten absolutely obliterated (MSCI Emerging Markets index –25%) compared to a meteoric rise in U.S. stocks (S&P 500 index +60%) over the same period
- 10/10/2015
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- International Markets
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- Article
Marathon Market Gets a Cramp
Investing is a lot like running a marathon…but it’s not a sprint to the retirement finish line. Attaining ambitious objectives does not happen overnight
- 10/03/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Coast is Clear Until 2019
Even if you truly believe there is more uncertainty today relative to yesterday, the economy has some relatively strong shock absorbers to ride out the volatility.
- 09/26/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
To Test or Retest?
With the recent -13% correction in the S&P 500 index, and subsequent mini-rebound, a lot of investors have also been talking to themselves and asking the fundamental question, “To test or retest, that is the question?”
- 09/19/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Oxymoron: Shrewd Government Refis Credit Card
The Treasury’s current plan based on the existing bond issuance trajectory will extend the average bond maturity from 70 months in 2015 to 80 months by the year 2022.
- 09/12/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
The Bungee Market
Almost any news headline has the capability of potentially triggering a short-term bungee jump in stock prices. It’s volatile times like these that remind investors about the importance of diversification, along with staying true to your investment objectives.
- 09/05/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Have Peripheral Colds Caused a U.S. Recession Flu?
At the trough of the recent correction, which was underscored by a brief but sharp -1,100 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Dow had temporarily corrected by -16.2% from its peak in May, earlier this...
- 08/30/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
The Art of Catching Falling Knives
Whether this will be the absolute best time to buy stocks is tough to say. Stocks are falling like knives, and in many instances prices have been sliced by more than -10%, -20%, or -30%.
- 08/22/2015
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- Stocks
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- Article
Inside the Brain of an Investing Genius
Peter Lynch's breadth of knowledge and versatility across styles has allowed him to compile a record that few, if any, could match – outside perhaps the great Warren Buffett.
- 08/15/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Playing the Field with Your Investments
If you are serious about your investments, I believe you must be mentally willing to commit to a relationship with your stock, not for a day, not for a week, or not for a month, but rather for...
- 08/09/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Investors Take a Vacation
It’s summertime and the stock market has taken a vacation, and it’s unclear when prices will return from a seven month break.
- 08/03/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Supply & Demand: The Key to Oil, Stocks, and Pork Bellies
Fortunately for investors, markets move in cycles and the fundamental laws of supply and demand hold true in both bull and bear markets, across all financial markets.
- 07/25/2015
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- Stocks
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- Article
F.U.D. and Dividend Shock Absorbers
Rampant fear seems very counterintuitive for a stock market that has more than tripled in value from early 2009 with the S&P 500 index only sitting -3% below all-time record highs.
- 07/11/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Missing the Forest for the Trees
Equity bears may be missing the fact that there has been a disproportional increase in the value of bond assets versus equity assets. The value of global financial assets increased an estimated +21.5% to $294 trillion from 2007...
- 06/28/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Standing on the Shoulders of a Growth Giant: Phil Fisher
Since it’s Father’s Day weekend, it seems appropriate to write about about the “Father of Growth Investing”…Phil Fisher.
- 06/20/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Will Rising Rates Murder the Market?
The media, economists, strategists, and other nervous onlookers will continue fretting over the Federal Reserve’s eventual rate increases. As long as dovish Janet Yellen is at the helm of the Fed, future rate increases will be measured, and...
- 06/06/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Stock Market Tug-of-War
Despite the gloomy headlines, the bulls are currently winning the tug-of-war as measured by the 6-year boom in global stock prices, which has breached a record $70 trillion in value.
- 06/01/2015
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- Stocks
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Digesting Stock Gains
Despite calls for “Sell in May, and go away,” the stock market as measured by both the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 indexes grinded out a +1% gain during the month of May.
- 06/01/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
PIMCO and Stocks: The Slow Motion Train Wreck
With more than 99% of PIMCO’s $2 trillion in assets under management locked into bonds, company executives have made a half-hearted effort of getting into the equity markets, even though they’ve enjoyed high-fiving each other during the three-decade-long...
- 05/23/2015
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- Managed Funds
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Building Your All-Star NBA Portfolio
In order to build a consistent winning percentage for your portfolio, you need to have a systematic, disciplined process of choosing your all-star-team, which can’t just consist of picking the hottest player of the day.
- 05/15/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Yellen is “Yell-ing” About High Stock Prices!
Earlier this week, Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, decided to chime in with her two cents regarding the stock market by warning stock values are “quite high.” She went on to emphasize “there are potential...
- 05/09/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
Netflix: Burn It and They Will Come
Netflix’s share price has already soared +63% this year as the company continues to burn hundreds of millions in cash, while aggressively building out its international streaming footprint.
- 04/25/2015
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- U.S. Stocks
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- Article
Fink & Capitalism: Need 4 Kitchens in Your House?
Companies that are generating record profits and margins are increasingly choosing to pay out larger percentages of profits to stockholders in the form of rising dividends and share buybacks. BlackRock's Larry Fink thinks this trend is too short-term...
- 04/18/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Chicken or Beef? Time for a Stock Diet?
Right now, the price of bonds in general have gone through the roof. In fact bond prices are so high, in Europe we are seeing more than $2 trillion in negative yielding sovereign bonds getting sucked up by...
- 03/28/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
“Patient” Prick Proves More Pleasure than Pain
For months the talking heads and so-called pundits have speculated and fretted over the potential removal of the term “patient” from the periodically issued Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement.
- 03/21/2015
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- Markets
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March Madness – Dividend Grandness & Volatility Blandness
As long as interest rates don’t spike up and/or corporate earnings crater, underlying demand for yield should provide a floor for stocks during heightened periods of volatility.
- 03/15/2015
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- Markets
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- Article
Can You Retire? Getting to Your Number
The ever-shifting and imprecise variables needed to compute the size of your needed nest egg for retirement can seem overwhelming.
- 02/22/2015
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- Retirement
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- Article
Here Comes the Great Rotation… Finally?
With bonds offering lower and lower yield possibilities, there are still plenty of opportunities in stocks, especially in high dividend-paying equity investments. Outside of the U.S., many global equity markets are offering significantly higher yields than bonds.
- 02/15/2015
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- Bonds
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- Article
Is Good News, Bad News?
Several key indicators have investors trying to decipher if they are good or bad for stock market prospects. Total jobs added were above estimates, lower oil prices continue and fears persist of a pending Fed interest rate hike.
- 02/07/2015
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- Economy
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- Article
Draghi Provides Markets QE Beer Goggles
While the financial market party has been gaining momentum in the U.S., Europe has been busy attending an economic funeral. Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank President is trying to reverse the somber deflationary mood with quantitative easing.
- 01/24/2015
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- Economy
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Supply & Demand: The Lesson of a Lifetime
Straightforward supply-demand dynamics can be used to analyze market relationships and trends. Until rates normalize, the near-0% interest rates we are experiencing now will continue to be a significant tailwind for stock prices.
- 01/19/2015
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Stretching the High Yield Rubber Band
The 10-Year Treasury note recently pierced below the all-important psychological 2% level (1.97%), which has confounded many investors, especially if you consider these same rates were around 4% before the latest mega-financial crisis hit the globe.
- 01/10/2015
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- Government Bonds
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- Article
Santa and the Rate-Hike Boogeyman
Simplistic thinking conventional thinking explains near 0% interest rates by loose monetary Quantitative Easing (QE) policies. But consider that that QE ended months ago and rates declined further rather than climb higher after QE’s completion.
- 12/20/2014
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- Economy
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- Article
Why 0% Rates? Tech, Globalization & EM (Not QE)
The irresponsible monetary policies of global central banks are only a small part of the story. Technology, globalization, and emerging market competition are the real reasons long term interest rates and inflation have been systematically driven down.
- 12/15/2014
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- Economy & Finance
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- Article
Don’t Be a Fool, Follow the Stool
Investing is a game of probabilities, and if you use the four tenets of profits, interest rates, sentiment, and valuations to drive your long-term investing decisions, your chances for future financial success will increase dramatically.
- 12/13/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Where are the Economists’ Yachts?
Often renowned economists are quite articulate – they use big words, crafty jargon, and wear fancy clothes. Unfortunately in many (most) cases the predictions are way off base. If they are so clairvoyant, where are their yachts?
- 12/06/2014
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- Economy
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- Article
Airbag Protection from Pundit Backseat Drivers
In the financial blogosphere and media there is an unending mass of backseat drivers recklessly directing investors off cliffs and into walls, but unfortunately there are no consequences for these blabbers. It’s the investors who are driving their...
- 11/22/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Fiscal Armageddon Greatly Exaggerated
Many of the doom-and-gloomer pundits expected a deficit in the uber-trillion dollar range to last for as far as the eye could see, but perception didn’t turn out to be reality.
- 11/14/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
A look at the magical power of dividend compounding. While dividends have more than tripled over the last twenty years, stock prices have gone up even more.
- 10/25/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
NASDAQ 5,000…Irrational Exuberance Déjà Vu?
Since the 1990s has been a persistent and unstoppable proliferation of technology adoption across virtually every aspect of our lives. NASDAQ 5,000 may not be here quite yet, but getting there over the next year or two may...
- 09/13/2014
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- Markets
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- Article
Shiller CAPE Peaches Smell Like BS
One of those piles of BS I repeatedly step into is the CAPE ratio (Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings) created by Nobel Prize in economics winner Robert Shiller.
- 06/14/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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Investing, Housing, and Speculating
Despite rampant speculation, most individuals understand the principles behind buying a house, which if applied to stocks, can make you a superior investor, and assist you in avoiding dangerous, speculative investments.
- 03/17/2014
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- Residential Property
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- Article
NASDAQ and the R&D-Tech Revolution
It’s been a bumpy start for stocks so far in 2014, but the fact of the matter is the NASDAQ Composite Index is up this year and hit a 14-year high in the latest trading session (highest level...
- 02/16/2014
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- Stocks
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- Article
Controlling the Investment Lizard Brain
What causes investors to make irrational decisions? The short answer: our “amygdala.”
- 01/11/2014
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Who Said Gridlock is Bad?
Deep philosophical differences can lead to political gridlock. When it comes to our nation’s finances, gridlock may not be optimal, but you can also see that a stalemate is not always the worst outcome either.
- 08/10/2013
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- Economy
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- Article
Monitoring the Tricks Hidden Up Corporate Sleeves
There are scores of accounting tricks that companies hide up their sleeves to mislead investors. The GAAP parameters that govern financial reporting actually provide companies with extensive latitude in the way accounting reports are implemented.
- 02/26/2013
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article
Beware: El-Erian & Gross Selling Buicks…Not Chevys
Despite the doomsday rhetoric from the bond brothers, PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian and founder Bill Gross have witnessed a more than doubling in equity prices, which has soundly trounced the performance of bonds over the last four years.
- 02/18/2013
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- Managed Funds
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- Article
NASDAQ: The Ugly Stepchild Index
With the NASDAQ (and NASDAQ 100) hitting a new decade-plus high, are we approaching bubble-esque P/E ratios (price-earnings) of the 2000 era? Not even close.
- 02/27/2012
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- Markets
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- Article
No Respect: The Rodney Dangerfield of the Investment World
While gold has experienced an incredible sextupling in prices over the last decade and hit new-all time highs, believe it or not, there is an unlikely asset class that is reaching new historic highs and has outperformed gold...
- 07/22/2011
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- Stocks
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- Article
PIMCO – The Downhill Marathon Machine
PIMCO has separated itself from the competition with its shrewd world-class marketing capabilities. Many investors are scooping up PIMCO’s bond products as they wait for financial Armageddon to arrive.
- 10/25/2010
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- Managed Funds
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- Article
The Hidden Train Wreck – Professional Athlete Portfolios
While many profesional athletes are busy concentrating on winning games, their portfolios are suffering losses.
- 09/23/2009
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- Intelligent Investing
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- Article