Doug Fabian
Making Money Alert: Volatility is the Precursor to Correction
The fear trade is back on Wall Street. With the events of the past three days, it’s no wonder why.
ETF Talk: Can You Trust Technology?
If you are reading this report, you are using technology. More and more, technology is becoming part of our daily lives and ordinary activities. Just a few short years ago, computing tablet technology was considered extraordinary. Now, it is commonplace. Devices of all sorts are becoming increasingly connected, and the next big development beyond our […]
Making Money Alert: Are Mutual Funds Lumbering Dinosaurs?
I love Sunday mornings, as I get to get enjoy a little extra sleep followed by a leisurely cup of coffee while reading the weekend edition of my local papers. This Sunday, I picked up a recent hard copy (yes, I still like to hold the physical paper in my hands) of the Los Angeles […]
ETF Talk: Chinese Energy ETF Offers Juice
We finish our series on energy sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with today’s look at a fund that focuses on the energy sector in China. The country has achieved remarkable industrial growth in the past several decades, and seems destined to maintain its pace in the near future. All of that growth requires increasingly large amounts […]
Making Money Alert: The Buy-and-Hold Grandfather’s Warning
When Jack Bogle speaks, the market usually stops and listens. That’s because the grandfather of buy-and-hold investing, and the founder and chairman of mutual fund stalwart Vanguard Group, is thought of as a sagacious, steady and calming voice that sooths those who want to buy stocks, and then just simply forget about them for a […]
ETF Talk: Ready to Energize Your Portfolio?
After a few weeks spent examining narrow segments of the energy sector, today’s ETF Talk takes the opposite approach by zooming out to look at the energy industry as a whole. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) which takes such a wide-lens perspective is the Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE). With demand in energy practically guaranteed to […]