It looks like both sides are starting to talk about some sort of compromise on the Bush tax cuts but I have not heard much about estate taxes. If we do nothing then on Jan 1 the estate tax rate goes to 55% of any amount over $1 million. With all this “talk” about wanting […]
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Insider Probe Clouds Mutual Fund Research
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703377504575650913581345360.html?mod=ITP_moneyandinvesting_4 I acutally used to believe those Janus commercials about how powerful their internal research was.
Will Fee Changes Jeopardize Small Investors?
They don’t have to.
David Einhorn Talks Gold
Even more interesting he talks about how QE2 could lead to misplaced inflation in commodities. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but seems to me that it argues for a tactical approach that includes commodity exposure.
Choosing Pension Options
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703374304575622780390118868.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalFinance_PF14 Interesting article in the WSJ this weekend about how companies are chaning the way they calculate lump sum pension options (to their benefit of course), and can do so without notifying employees (like you would have read the small print anyway). This highlights the fact that you always need to explore all of your […]