Category: Investing

  • Beta: Learning how risky an investment might be

    Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO how investors can consider an investment’s potential risk compared to a benchmark. […]

  • Efficiently lining up reward and risk

    In seeking the optimal investment return at the level of risk they’re willing to take, investors can use the Efficient Frontier model, Steve Giles says, to help find an appropriate mix of assets to consider. MONEY TALK VIDEO

  • Talking Money: Measuring risk/reward

    This MONEY TALK VIDEO, with Kyle Tetting, introduces some of the statistical tools used to help measure risk and return. […]

  • Talking Money: Modern Portfolio Theory

    Modern Portfolio Theory aims at balancing asset allocations to optimize investment return at a given level of risk. It’s a prize-winning approach to investment management, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Stock up for the long haul

    By Dave Sandstrom Investors who fled stocks after the financial crisis or simply decided to pull out on the day they retired are now seeing firsthand why being too conservative can be costly. The last 30 years in the bond market have produced reliable returns, so this concept of leaning too heavily on bonds is…

  • Bonds for long run

    By Arthur S. Rothschild I got a call from a client who has a balanced portfolio – half stocks and half bonds, and he knows that interest rates are going to go up at some point. His question was what should he be doing differently? It’s a question I’m hearing a lot lately. The answer…

  • Online, en garde

    By Joel Dresang Federal authorities have reported a spike in cases of investors losing money through compromised email accounts. A joint alert from the FBI, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the Internet Crime Complaint Center says criminals attempted to transfer $23 million in total from investor accounts at various financial institutions…

  • Staying the Course

    By Joel Dresang Investors riled by the recent stock market selloffs need to be calm and reasoned, Bob Landaas advises. Bob Landaas talked about the latest financial and economic developments in a call-in program on Wisconsin Public Radio, Tuesday, Aug. 9. To listen, please click here and then press the middle button under Kathleen Dunn’s…