THE COMPLEAT INVESTOR: Part 2

In Part One, I dangled before my reader the promise of a long term investment plan anyone can follow, that really works.




In an ideal world, such a plan would need to be seriously easy to set up and maintain, offer the prospect of strong but steady growth over the ultra-long term and, by avoiding those occasional but potentially devastating bear markets, take full advantage of the remarkable wealth-building power of compound returns.  

THE COMPLEAT INVESTOR: Part 1

I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishin'.

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653

As the early nights draw in, icy winds and snows descend and we plunge headlong into the deep mid-winter, On the Money finds himself curling up on the sofa, throwing back a couple of port & brandys and taking stock.  

STOCKS: Iceberg dead ahead

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There are now so many signals calling for a top in the stock market it's hard to know where to begin...

AN IRISHMAN LETS FLY IN THE WINDY CITY

Keepin' it real.

Stand by for a major new OntheMoney post, 

coming soon...

STOCKS: Shanghai Blues signals New York State of Mind

Now let's take another angle on the theme from my previous post.  In the past few weeks, Chinese investors' worries have pulled their stock index back down into the mire from which it had only just managed to escape.  If past patterns persist, this is not good news for our markets.

CHINA: What if they built a city, and nobody came?

In a few years time, when people are shaking their heads wondering whatever happened to the Chinese economic miracle, remember this image.