June 2011
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Buy or Hold? Buy & Hold? Buy, don't Hold?
Forbes writer Marc Gerstein recently took a snipe at buy-and-hold investors.
He told blogger Chris Barth, “Buy and hold, to me, equals negligence.” Gerstein added that three months is the longest you should hold an investment.
That’s the headline. Now here’s the small print: He qualifies his dislike of buy-and-hold investing with the admission that he will and sometimes does hold investments...
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It’s Not News: Teaching Kids to Save Pays Off
When someone says they don’t like to “toot their own horn,” my response is usually, “why not?”
If you can offer someone a tip or item that is new, unique and useful, you’re not bragging; you’re sharing helpful information.
That’s why I’ll be the first to tell you that My Money Journal is easily one of the best investments you can make in a child. (Click on the title to receive 20% off...
ePublishing Milestone is Boon to Financial Readers
The biggest story of the week in the publishing world is that best-selling author Michael Connelly has joined the Kindle Million Club.
According to Book Business Magazine, the club is comprised of authors who have sold 1 million Kindle books. Only six others belong to this elite group: Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Chilld and Suzanne Collins.
Although...
We're all a-Twitter
Among the people I follow on Twitter is SFO executive editor Michelle Gebhardt (@SFOmagMichelle).
While free, SFO products—from the monthly magazine, regular webinars and daily news updates—are nonetheless invaluable tools.
I check the SFO (Stocks, Futures, Options) site several times daily, and Michelle’s always informative and sometimes humorous tweets drive me there even more often.
Such was...
