Gradual Retirement Working in "retirement" isn't only for the Walmart greeter! Are you in a hurry to retire? Not everyone is rushing to that particular finish line. According to the 2018 retirement survey from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, which gauges the outlook of American workers, 56% of [...]
What a Difference a Month Can Make! How different one quarter can be from the next. The stock market has reminded investors of those truths in a long post-Christmas rally. In the fourth quarter, gloom came over Wall Street. Bearish sentiment grew and left stocks down for the year; the [...]
TD Investor Movement Index (IMX) January '19 was the best start of the year for stocks since 1987. However this did not mean that all investors reaped gains. TD Ameritrade has been publishing the "Investor Movement Index" since 2010. The index tracks "where" in the markets most investors [...]
Your Diversified Portfolio vs. The S&P 500 “Why is my portfolio underperforming the market?” This question may be on your mind. It is a question that investors sometimes ask after stocks shatter records or return exceptionally well in a quarter. The short answer is that while the U.S. equities market [...]
Halloween isn't the only spooky event in October! October is challenging investors. October has almost always been challenging investors. Just take a look at the chart below. Since 1950, October has delivered more 1% market swings (up or down) than any other month. This year is proving to be no [...]
Guinness Book of *Bogus!* Humans are obsessed with records. The fastest. The strongest. The first. The longest. Every time we see a new record being broken, we feel like we’re witnessing something historic. Within the past few months, we added a new record to the list: The Longest Bull Market [...]
Are You Getting Hosed? If you're like lots of Americans, at some point a securities broker sold you a bunch of mutual fund or annuity products. He or she made a lot of money, and they called a few times in the first year. Since then, you haven’t heard from [...]
