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The right track to your financial health.
JASON ZWEIG
Personal Finance Columnist, “The Intelligent Investor”
The Wall Street Journal
“There’s no doubt that the pursuit of yield is bordering on a mania” says Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal‘s Personal Finance Columnist. Don’t miss Consuelo’s discussion when she asks Zweig about dangerous investor behavior and why he is concerned as investors are abandoning bonds and flocking to dividend-paying stocks.
What’s the “new” conversation we should be having about retirement income? Mary Beth Franklin of InvestmentNews and Kimberly Lankford of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance tell us how the typical approach changed and the new tools we should use for guaranteed income that lasts a lifetime.
CALCULATE HOW MUCH MONEY YOU NEED TO RETIRE COMFORTABLY Review assumptions using new approaches Maximize your social security benefits Consider impact of insurance products: immediate annuities longevity insurance long term care insurance RETIREMENT CALCULATORS T. Rowe Price Fidelity
• Great Investors search for what is working now and will work in the future • Classic example: Winters’ focus on companies catering to the aspirational consumers in emerging markets
Emerging markets have substantially underperformed the U.S. stock market over the last two years. There is one area however where emerging markets, particularly those in Asia, South America and China continue to shine: demand for luxury goods. Bain & Company reports that the so called “HENRYs” (High Earnings, Not Rich Yet) consumers in those markets are becoming a “new baby boom sized generation” for luxury goods. That is the sweet spot for this week’s Great Investor guest, David Winters. Winters is the Portfolio Manager of the value-oriented Wintergreen Fund which he founded in 2005. Since inception this go anywhere, invest in anything fund has outperformed the market and its mutual fund category.
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Stay the course and if you must make portfolio changes take incremental steps… the markets might be choppy, others might be panicking, fleeing bonds for instance or piling into stocks, whatever they are doing en masse, don’t follow. Pros like Dan Fuss and Rich Bernstein have learned over time that going against the herd and […]
