The dow was down 400 points today, the dow was up today, how’s the dow looking? We hear this everyday and everyone talks about ‘the dow’ as some magical being. When you say ‘the dow,’ do you actually know what it is? ‘The Dow’ is a stock market index that was created by Charles Dow [...]
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Again, Do Not Own Equity in Your Firm
March 5th, 2009 by Brad Harbach 2 Comments »I read a disturbing article in the WSJ this morning that cited a rise in employees investing their 401(k) dollars in their own firm. As I stated a couple months ago, this is a VERY BAD IDEA because you do not want your 401(k) returns to be highly correlated with your employment and pay increases. [...]
[Read More...]Dow 5000?
March 3rd, 2009 by Will Crowthers waiting for comments...Scary to think that one year ago today the Dow stood at over 12000. It sits under 6800 today, the lowest point since 1997. I’m not going to go through all of the doom and gloom, but if you do want that the NY Times has a good article. What I do want to remind [...]
[Read More...]Index Investing
March 2nd, 2009 by Will Crowthers 3 Comments »Today’s guest blogger is a friend from Virginia Tech (go Hokies!). Nate was in the business school and was extremely active with the campus newspaper and various other groups. These days he keeps himself as an aspiring entrepreneur and oh yea – a day job.Index Investingby Nate Jones I love investing but I go about [...]
[Read More...]Stocks Are Still King
February 24th, 2009 by Brad Harbach waiting for comments...Take a look at three graphs of the NASDAQ and DJIA which show their performance over the previous 1, 5, and 10 years. 1yr(Dow had 35% Loss)5yr(Dow had 4.5% Annualized Loss)10yr(Dow had 1.4% Annualized Loss) The performance of the stock market over the last 10 years has been awful. However, there is no reason to [...]
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