Is It Time to Dump Your Financial Adviser?

Your investment adviser is an important partner in your life — after all, who knows your intimate financial details better? It’s an intensely personal, yet professional, relationship. Here’s what to do when you discover that i…

Treasury TIPS: A Looming Disaster for Small Investors

Hoping to add some safety against inflation to their portfolios, many folks have been investing in Treasury inflation-protected securities — TIPS. So now that inflation is on the horizon, they should be sitting pretty, right? …

Is Gold a Bubble About to Pop? These Charts Say No

Some are convinced the precious metal will keep rising, others that it’s tracing out a classic speculative bubble that’s ready to burst. Nobody has a crystal ball, but an “agnostic” technical analysis of the charts provides som…

10 Secrets of the Most Successful Amateur Investors

If 80% of professional fund managers underperform the market, how can individuals like you hope to succeed? In a new book, Matthew Schifrin of Forbes hunted down 10 of the best-performing mini-Buffetts over the past decade to g…