From the monthly archives:

December 2011

Portfolio tips to help smooth out the market

by Aaron Katsman on December 29, 2011

If you are an investor, the best investment you could have made this year was to buy a few bottles of Rolaids. With all the stomach-churning volatility that has symbolized the stock market for 2011, the only relief has been some antacid.

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Redistributing wealth from the rich to the less fortunate doesn’t really help the less fortunate. What helps them the most is a job and incentives to invest, so that they can be enabled to do what it takes to grow their net worth and exit the poverty cycle they are relegated to.

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Power + Populism = Plunging local stock market?

by Aaron Katsman on December 15, 2011

Israelis are beginning to reap the fruits of this past summer’s protests; the problem is that the fruit may be rotten.

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How to play retirement catch-up

by Aaron Katsman on December 8, 2011

After having worked so hard and having “followed the book” when it comes to saving for retirement, many pre-retirees have seen their investment portfolios (not to mention their real-estate holdings) drop significantly in recent years

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