Financial advisors are everywhere these days, and with the current economy, some of them are pretty busy getting egg off their faces. As in any industry there are the steady reliable performers, the ones you probably do not want to find yourself with, and a last group. This third group is rooted in the fundamentals, [...]

Last week, I found this interesting analysis by Dr. Housing Bubble called “ The Invisible Economic Recovery .” Here are some excerpts, but if you are interested in California specific scenarios, I suggest you click on the above link and read the entire article: The invisible recovery is all around us if you would only close your eyes, and trust your instincts. Contrary to the implosion of many state budgets, the Federal government amazingly seems to have an unlimited amount of money for select causes.

My latest No Load Fund/ETF Tracker has been posted at: http://www.successful-investment.com/newsletter-archive.php Despite a sharp Monday sell-off, the major indexes recovered, and the bulls came out in full force. Our Trend Tracking Index (TTI) for domestic funds/ETFs has now crossed its trend line (red) to the upside by +6.16% keeping the current buy signal intact. The effective date was June 3, 2009

Mutual funds are a type of investment scheme. They bring together resources from many different investors and then these stocks are traded in a number of other different securities. The risk involved in these investments is minimized by the fact that the stocks are not individually but communally owned. They have a long history and [...]

After writedowns, time to log profits By Adeline Paul Raj Published: 2009/08/27 With the issue of impairment charges settled, Malayan Banking management’s focus for the current fiscal year would be earnings deliverance, says an analyst with AmResearch MALAYAN Banking Bhd (Maybank) (1155), the country’s top lender, must focus on delivering earnings at its newly-acquired banks, particularly Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII), now that it has gotten the issue of impairment charges out of the way, analysts said. The issue of how much impairment charges Maybank would have had to make, particularly for BII, had been one of the biggest things weighing the stock in recent months