Demographics and Your Investments — Part III
The demographics certainly are not the whole story behind why the markets dipped over the past few years, but they were most certainly a contributing factor.
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Demographics and Your Investments — Part II
Aging population – market time bomb? Okay, that’s a sensationalistic way to put it, but that’s certainly one of the fears people have about an the shifting demographics in North America. Last time around I looked at how portfolio size tends to trend lower as people go past 65. All things being equal, the […]
Demographics and Your Investments — Part I
Demographic shifts are going to shake up your portfolio. Part I: How portfolios change over a lifetime.
Moving, but Not Up
I like offbeat economic indicators – the number of boats or RVs sold, what colors are in the crayon box, etc. etc. A lot of time they tell you what is going on just as well as some of the stuffier stuff (y’know, GDP and all that) that we all track every day. So I was […]
After the Fall
Now that the U.S. economy looks a just a teensy bit better (I know, I know the National Bureau of Economic Research won’t say that the recession is over, but still) it’s probably okay to start adding up the cost of the crisis. The Pew Research Institute has a new study out that does just […]
