Category: Futures, Options and Commodities
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It’s Outcome, Not Income, That Should Be Stressed In Retirement Planning
Retirement Planning? Most Americans are pessimistic about how well off they’ll be financially when they reach retirement. “People have a lot of worries and that’s understandable,” says Dan Carter, an Investment Advisor Representative for Safeguard Investment Advisory Group (www.safeguardinvestment.com). “Their savings may not be what they hoped for. Pensions for most people are a thing…
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Robo-Advisors Vs. Humans: Gauging The Outer Limits Of Automated Financial Advice
The use of robo-advisors is on the rise among investors looking for an alternative way to get help with financial planning. In fact, a report by the consulting firm A.T. Kearney predicted that robo-advisors will be managing 5.6 percent of Americans’ investment assets by 2020, up from 0.5 percent when the report was done in…
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Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance
Let’s for a second imagine a world without nuclear energy. That’s a tough one but let’s try. No nuclear bombs, of course, no Chernobyl and Fukushima, no worries about Iran and North Korea. A wonderful world, maybe? Probably not, because without nuclear energy we would have burned millions more tons of coal and billions more…
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Vertical Spreads, Take them or Leave them?
One of the new buzz words in the option industry is the vertical spread. Although they’ve been around for as long as option trading, popularity of the strategy has been on the rise due to historically challenging market volatility and a more sophisticated trading community. Option buyers look to vertical spreads as a means of…
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Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions
We are on the precipice of a food fight among 7 billion people, and potash will be right at the center of it. If you can add 200,000 people every day to the global population and account for a significant loss of farmland at the same time, you can begin to understand the dire food…
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Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities
It is always Darkest Before the Dawn: Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities [box]In this paper, Parametric Head of Investment Strategy Tim Atwill makes the case that, despite recent returns, a strategic allocation to the commodity asset class still makes sense on a forward-looking basis, given its desirable combination of inflation protection and low correlation…
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13 Resources to Empower Women Investors
At a time when women are still making less money than their male counterparts for equal work, the nonprofit Alliance for Investor Education (AIE) is now offering “Women and Investing: Resources to Empower Female Investors” at http://www.investoreducation.org/womeninvesting. AIE is a consortium of 15 leading U.S. financial-related foundations, nonprofit organizations, associations and governmental agencies. Whether it’s…
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Why Do We Gamble…on Horses, Slots or Wall Street?
“Visitors to Las Vegas lose around $6 billion a year at the casinos. Yet we keep going back. Even though we know logically that we’ll lose money and that the odds are literally stacked against us, we hold out hope that we will be the special one who hits blackjack and goes home rich. Close your eyes…
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Why China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut
Ship tracking data from Bloomberg shows that 83 supertankers carrying around 166 million barrels of oil are headed to China, which has stockpiled an impressive 787,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2016—the highest stockpiling rate since 2014. China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut. While the world was speculating about oil prices plunging…