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  • Guide to a Baby Boomers Retirement

    The ripe age of 65 is no longer a valid number for those planning their retirement. As more and more baby boomers reach this age, demographers and researchers are skeptical as to just how long they will live. Not only does this uncertainty have effects on a national level, as to the cost of Medicare…

  • First Quarter Market Returns

    It is often hard to know what the market returns when all we see on TV or the internet is the minute to minute ticker.  As investors we need a broader view of how the market has done so we can know if we are getting market returns with our investments.  Matson Money does a…

  • Retirement Planning Basics: Investment Accounts

    Planning your investments to build a retirement fund can be a dizzying prospect. The various questions and options and details and accounts and amounts are enough to make anyone’s head spin. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a generic recipe for success? A nice neat list of step by step instructions on how to…

  • Equities in the Last 30 Years: A Retrospective

    Looking at a chart http://bit.ly/qSHuve covering the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last century is a lot like looking at a chart of profitable business earnings at a cartoon enterprise meeting–it’s almost a caricature of itself, a steady upward slope punctuated by regular but far-between drops, always ending higher than it…

  • Should you Buy Gold as an Investment?

    We have all seen the advertisements and headlines that keep telling us that investors need to flee to safety and buy gold.  They will tell us that the stock market is going to crash worse than last time, and that investors need a hedge to inflation with gold.  They will say it with charisma and…

  • Is the Stock Market Rigged?

    Investors everywhere are panicking and fearful after a very interesting topic on 60 minutes this past Sunday. The headlines read, “The Stock Market is Rigged, and you are the victim”. So I am going to break down exactly why they are saying that the stock market is rigged, and whether you should panic or not.…

  • Candy Crush Saga is Going Public: Should You Invest?

    As Candy Crush Saga makes its way to Wall Street there are a few things we can learn from this IPO (Initial Public Offering). First of all, should you invest in an IPO company? The answer is no. Matson Money chooses to stay away from stocks when they first go through their IPO due to…

  • When Stockpickers Realize Their Flaw

    Stock Picking is and has been a very popular topic for years. We look at examples like Warren Buffet and see how much success he had “stock picking”. Well I learned today that Warren Buffet doesn’t believe that stock picking works. Here are pieces of a great article called, “Why the World’s Greatest Stock Picker…

  • MyRA:Obama’s New Retirement Plan

    The new idea of the MyRA is similar to a Roth IRA, but with only one investment option, the US Government. There is obviously some diversification red flags that come up with these accounts as well as a few others. Here is more basic information on what a MyRA is from a article on Yahoo…

  • Bad Markets in January?

    The market return in January was down, especially when comparing it to the wonderful returns we all received in 2013. You might be thinking, is this the beginning of a bear market. Should you panic. The answer is no to panicking. The market will do its thing in the short term but if you are…