Financial Privacy Worries JEAN CHATZKY’S December Money Talk (“Battling Identity Theft”) brought up a subject that’s rarely talked about: the power of the Social Security number. It was used for the administration of social benefits and taxes, but now it seems to be used for lots of things, with little care from the requester for […]
Ins and Outs of Indexes First rule of tracking the market: Know thy benchmarks. The lights are low and the tension is high on the set of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Regis reads you the $1 million question: “The Wilshire 5000, the Russell 2000 and Standard & Poor’s 500 are: a) the […]
Yes, Funds Still Matter Stocks may sound sexier, but mutual funds can deliver plenty of sizzle. I love mutual funds. Investing in them may not be as sexy as trading individual stocks or clicking your way to an online broker. But there is no better deal in the financial services world than funds. For a […]
LESSONS OF THE ’90s Do the Experts Ever Get the Future Right? Does Anybody? BEFORE YOU PUT ALL YOUR MONEY IN THAT TECH FUND, CONSIDER HOW FAR OFF OUR EXPECTATIONS HAVE BEEN OVER THE PAST DECADE. SO HERE WE ARE, ONLY A FEW SCANT WEEKS INTO A NEW YEAR. A NEW DECADE, A NEW century, […]