Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Before we get on to the links, I’d like to mention that Mike from Oblivious Investor has just announced his book is now on sale. Entitled Oblivious Investing: Building Wealth by Ignoring the Noise [...]
2009
Part one of this series introduced crisis investing and looked at the opportunity to profit when vague fears affect the stock market. But how should you react when a specific event makes headline news? Some events can be very significant for both history and stock markets, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall or [...]
A financial story gathering steam is the alleged miss-selling of structured investment products that ‘guaranteed’ your capital was safe. The issue concerns products ultimately backed by Lehman Brothers, the failed U.S. investment bank. Since what is left of Lehamn Brothers may be unable to honor its commitments as the underwriter of certain elements of the [...]
Deciding how to react to a crisis like a potential flu pandemic, a natural disaster or war is one of the most controversial aspects of stock market investing. Many panics, whether they affect the whole market or individual companies, turn out to be false alarms. Even those scares that have substance often turn out to [...]