June 2010

Does your portfolio need food?

by Henry Becker 06.23.2010
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In the viscous market we are seeing it pays to look for stocks that hold up well in weak markets and strained economic circumstances. With the possibility that some global markets could be dragged back into recession investors must plan for tighter spending by consumers. Your action plan should be to look for what I [...]

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Is your advisor misinformed?

by Henry Becker 06.22.2010
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You will want to sit down for this one. The modern financial services industry and their computer generated investment models, have been driven by 50 year old, flawed research. Let me take you on a little financial services adventure in this post. It all started back in the 1950s with a man named Markowitz. MPT [...]

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Podcast Episode 7 – Liar’s Risk

by Henry Becker 06.07.2010
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In this beginning of the week episode I will share my thoughts on mitigating liar’s risk and share a web page that is a free one stop shop for all the market data you could want.

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Can ETFs mitigate liars risk?

by Henry Becker 06.07.2010
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From the time we learn to speak we are taught to tell the truth. The problem these days is that many companies (and countries) do not want to face and in many cases tell the truth. Why on earth would companies and governments want to be less than forthright?  The answer is simply self-preservation. Investing [...]

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