The AIA Advocate Newsletter
From: The Research and Editorial Staff of
The Association for Investor Awareness, Inc.
The AIA “Advocate For Absolute Returns”, a publication of The Association for Investor Awareness, tracks market trends, industry news, the SEC, global trade and finance and Washington developments for you because they affect your investments. But who doesn’t? Many sources report these issues as abstract facts.
We feel that’s not enough…
The AIA Advocate’s job is to warn you of what’s important and how these developments translate to ground-level forces and threats that directly affect your wealth as well as your current investment opportunities. Not just information, but information you can use.
Drought – Food Prices Headed Higher, Maybe a Lot
Between the Lines by Gary D. Halbert Editor’s Note: Today’s GDP report for the 2Q came in better than expected at +2.5%, thanks largely to some trade data that was not available last month when the GDP estimate was only +1.7%. I’ll have more analysis on the GDP report in…
Custom-Made Retirement
By Dennis Miller You may have heard the popular legend about Eskimo tribes sending the elderly off to die at sea. As the stories go, when grandpa and grandma could no longer hunt or earn their keep, the younger folks would put them on an iceberg and ship them off….
Welfare Pays More Than Work in Most States
Between the Lines by Gary D. Halbert Editor’s Note: The last few weeks have been very hectic for the Halberts. My 95 year-old Mother-In-Law broke her hip in late July, had hip replacement surgery and has been in a rehab hospital here in Austin for the last three weeks. Just…
Four Benchmarks to Keep Your Retirement Finances on Track
By Dennis Miller When I was still a young buck out in the workplace, financial magazines periodically published worksheets for calculating when you had enough money to retire. The process became much easier when we got our first PC. Programs like Microsoft Money had a retirement planner tab where you…
The Illusion of Safe Investing
By Dennis Miller Retirees are often more concerned with the return of their money than the return on their money. It’s understandable; after our peak earning years have passed financial safety becomes our primary concern since the opportunity to earn back investment losses is essentially over. My high school graduating…
When Does It Make Sense to Pay High Mutual Fund Fees?
By Dennis Miller We’ve recently written a couple articles on ETFs—exchange traded funds—to help investors understand the difference between them and mutual funds and to show how for nearly every mutual fund you can find an nearly identical ETF that charges much less in fees. And each time we come…