Category: International Investing

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • What’s Even Better than Index Funds?

    Dan Solin helps us to understand first of all why index funds are better than actively traded funds. Then he goes on to explain why there is an even better way to invest than index funds. We call it institutional funds, he calls it passive asset class investing. Here is part of the article he…

  • Dan Solin “Learning From Brazil”

    This is a very interesting article from Dan Solin on the investors take on what has happened in Brazil. “Let’s take a journey back in time to 2005. Your broker calls you with exciting news. His firm has just issued a comprehensive report concluding that Brazil is likely to become one of the fastest-growing economies…