Archive for Asset Allocation

Lost Decade of Stocks? Is The Market Different Now? The Truth of The Last Ten Years

Nov 19, 2011 No Comments by Bryan Binkholder

The Financial Coach, Bryan Binkholder examines the common held, popular notion that the stock market has yielded flat to negative returns for the last ten years after substantial drops in 2000 to 2002 and then again in 2008. Could these ‘talking points’ of insurance & bond salesmen and misguided members of the press actually be [...]

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The Corruption of Index Funds & ETF’s: Lesson 101 How the Industry Pollutes!

Apr 05, 2011 4 Comments

The Financial Coach reveals in this coaching session how just like the mutual funds industry (which began as a good thing) has become polluted and corrupt, the industry (financial salespeople and firms) are now moving to corrupt index fund investing and Exchange Traded Fund investing (Passive Approaches to investing) by taking the truth and mixing [...]

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Expectations & Emotions: Investors Biggest Dangers

Mar 10, 2010 1 Comment

Most investors are their worst enemies when it comes to investing along with the corrupt marketing system of selling investments that we call Wall Street & brokerage firms (and their minions: Financial Salespeople).  Not understanding our risks in an investment strategy, falling prey to clever marketing and ‘Past Performance’ along with emotions that sidetrack us [...]

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Invested Properly: 2008 & 2009 were fun but you’re back even or better!

Feb 28, 2010 No Comments

The market was wild in 2008 and 2009 but if you maintained focus, kept to your investment strategies and rebalanced you were highly successful! Blue Ocean Portfolio’s, utilizing low cost index and Exchange Traded Funds, did what they were supposed to do in 2008 and 09. Watch the video to see how you could be [...]

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Common Investing Mistakes

Dec 22, 2009 1 Comment

(click on title to watch the video) As the new year approaches and stock picks galore are posted on websites, magazines and television shows, remember the basics of investing.  This video will also help us learn why so many investors and professionals receive abysmal returns and always seem to be making the wrong moves.

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