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 [...]

The Financial Coach Bryan Binkholder examines Columbia Management’s Mutual Fund advertisements to financial professionals and individuals.  Watch this short clip and see how what appears to be dramatic proof of their success is actually a condemnation of their failure!

The Financial Coach Bryan Binkholder examines the biggest problem facing investors as they are ‘pitched’ mutual funds by financial salespeople (advisors). In today’s post on mutual funds I want to draw your attention to that sneaky little thing called ‘the fine print’. The crazy thing is, mutual funds love to talk about how great their [...]

The Financial Coach Bryan Binkholder and Jim Winkelmann of Blue Ocean Portfolios describe how you as an investor can build a portfolio to defeat inflation or deflation or whatever you think may happen. The two also discuss The End of America (losing the reserve currency status), silver prices, President Obama and the possibility of a [...]