SA For FAs
SA For FAs delivers information and analysis that will help Financial Advisors throughout their day. The podcast, hosted by Seeking Alpha editor Gil Weinreich, addresses issues of current interest to Financial Advisors and active investors, including macro analysis of current issues affecting markets; retirement planning; and asset allocation strategy.
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Flying Cars And Disruptive Innovation
Intel’s drones chief forecasts flying cars in five years, in an interview published Sunday. That change is coming to cars seems evident by the fact that Intel plunked the not small sum of $15.3 billion for Mobileye two years ago. The trend...
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Race To Raise Taxes
This is my nonpartisan take on the swelter of tax-hike proposals bubbling up today from Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and more. These politicians have their reasons for their levies, like universal child care, which they...
5 min
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High Income, Or Stable Income, In Retirement?
Nobel Prize winning economist Bill Sharpe has been simulating various income paths through a variety of strategies, including fixed withdrawal rates and annuity approaches. He tells Investment Advisor magazine that fixed withdrawal approaches,...
4 min
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Roger Salus: A Perspective On Contemporary Econ...
Roger Salus writes what I think is some of the most clear, creative and original economic analyses on Seeking Alpha. In this brief interview, Salus helps us understand what contributes to making a country more prosperous. He also elaborates on his...
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Lemmings And The Crisis Of Retirement
ING has looked at savings behavior in generally affluent countries and found grave inadequacy to be the unifying element. Half of current retirees admit to having a lower standard of living in retirement. More than half of Europeans who have not yet...
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Make Investment Decisions You Can Live With
In investing, it is vital to get the big things right. One way to ensure good investment decision-making is to assume that you harbor biases and probe going against your instincts. If your investing track record has been a poor one, it would be...
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Washington and Lincoln as Investors
Both Washington and Lincoln became wealthy men. Washington stands as one of the wealthiest Americans of all time, whereas Lincoln rose far from his log-cabin origins. America has always been a good investment, but Washington got on on the ground...
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Does High Debt Mean Low Growth?
The U.S. national debt is now $22 trillion for the first time – that’s an increase of over 10% from when President Trump took office. The administration expects today’s growth will be sustained, but it didn’t work out that way for his...
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Financial Journalist Confessions
Veteran Australian financial journalist named Michael Pascoe admits to having spent a quarter of a century providing daily financial market reports that were “mostly rubbish.” Now he is trying to keep investors focused on the long-term, and is...
4 min
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A Helpful New Direction In Retirement Research
New research by Moshe Milevsky distinguishes between chronological age and biological age. Someone who has lived 60 years may be as fit as a 50-year-old or may be biologically equivalent to a 70-year-old. Thus, the implications for asset allocation...
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A Stock-Market Teaching Moment
The past two months provided a rare stock-market round trip covering quite a distance in percentage terms, with 9.6% losses in December followed by 8.6% returns in January. If you were among those who sold, the reason was likely the perception that...
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Your Portfolio In 2050
An analysis written for the British bank HSBC nearly a decade ago by economist Karen Ward, called “The World in 2050,” projected how the world economy would appear in 40 years. Ward thought today’s emerging markets would make up 19 of the top 30...
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Daniel Amerman On Social Security, Medicare and...
Independent analyst Daniel Amerman ,CFA thinks it naïve to expect inflation-adjusted Social Security payments in perpetuity; nor does he expect the system will go bankrupt; rather, he holds retirees will get paid – just less than before each year...
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The No. 1 Retirement-Planning Problem
To solve for spending in retirement, you need to plug in how much capital you have, what your rate of return is and how much time you have – that last item being impossible to know. Longevity tables meant to offer guidance may understate the...
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Using Apple Each Day Can Keep The Doctor Away
With Apple having lost a third of its value since October, are investors dealing with a Silicon Valley has-been or a will-be whose shares are now attractively priced? Apple appears to be deftly pivoting from an area of slowing growth to the area that...
4 min
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Jack Bogle Made Investors Money
Jack Bogle offered the gift of strong long-term returns and the ability to enjoy them – without the stress and losses that many who come to Wall Street looking for riches end up taking away with them instead.
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Pros And Cons Of Owning Gold
Gold’s returns over time are unimpressive – if your comparison is stocks. But that’s not really the relevant comparison, and in fact, gold can facilitate your ownership of stocks. The portfolio purpose that gold ultimately serves is as a cash...
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Behavioral Economist Shachar Kariv: Investors M...
U.C. Berkeley behavioral economist Shachar Kariv identifies two fundamental sources of investor pain – lack of knowledge about the market and lack of self-knowledge. Successful investing requires effort to resolve these uncertainties.
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A Popular Way To Lose Money
It’s still the beginning of a new year, and your …
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Apple, China And A Teetering Global Economy
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has pinned his firm’s darken…
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My Top Pick For 2019
With one cheap fund, you can own a globally diver…
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These Are The Times That Try Investors’ Souls
What the American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrot…
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Investors’ Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Guide
Still scrambling to get your children, nephews or…
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The ETF From Ipanema
In a market that has killed every category, emerg…
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Actuary Scott Witt On Why, (Why Not) And How To...
Scott Witt is a fee-only insurance advisor who pr…
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