Daily Posts Archive

In the stock market, September is usually a time of increased purpose, as the giants of Wall Street return from their summer vacations (after Labor Day), tanned, re-energized and ready to grapple with the market and its challenges.

It’s official: we’re in the midst of a true market correction? That’s causing widespread panic on Wall Street. Here’s why it shouldn’t.

My value approach seems contrary to the thinking of most investors, but I believe selling when the market is high and buying when the market is low makes sense.

Yes, cash is the gift that keeps on giving, especially when you have a high percentage of it in your growth portfolio, and most especially when stock markets are (as my mother would say) having a hissy fit.

For many investors, even the intelligent and well-informed readers of Cabot Wealth Advisory, the biggest decision to be made in their portfolio is whether to put your money into index funds or to make the jump to actively managed funds.

Last week’s Cabot Investors Conference featured some of the best market insight from our top advisors. Here are my top five takeaways from the two-day event.

In last week’s column on the twin topics of The Individual vs. the State and Inequality, I mentioned that beginning in 2017, the SEC will require public companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO’s annual compensation and that of the median employee—and I asked for your opinions on that.

Cabot Options Trader and Cabot Options Trader Pro subscribers at the Conference asked me about many of their current stock positions on which they do not have options positions. I gave them ideas to create yield as well as hedge.