Author: landaasco

  • For What It’s Worth: Sell in May

    By Joel Dresang The notion of an annual summer sell-off is based on a sense that shareholders should get out of the market while stock traders leave Wall Street to summer in the Hamptons or on the Jersey Shore. As part of an occasional series exploring the origins of financial lingo, we look into the…

  • For What It’s Worth: Bucks

    When President Obama referred to earning “some serious Tubmans,” he reminded us that we like to use slang when we’re talking money. […]

  • Focus on fundamentals to face volatility

    Earnings and interest rates drive stocks in the long run, Steve Giles says, and investors should on those fundamentals, especially when markets are volatile, as they have been to begin 2016. Steve explains more in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Bonds also face investment risks

    All investments contain risk. Even bond holdings – typically considered safer than stocks – face possible shortcomings, especially as interest rates rise. In a MONEY TALK VIDEO, Tom Pappenfus talks about how investors can assess bond risks in their portfolios. […]

  • Mutual Fund 101 – Introduction

    In an introduction to our Mutual Fund 101 series, Adam Baley talks about a convenient investment vehicle for building diversified portfolios. […]

  • Planning retirement via Social Security

    Free estimates available from Social Security are helpful tools for planning retirement. Lisa Lewitzke explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Making the most of mutual fund fees

    Essential to the success of an investment is how much its costs eat into returns. In a MONEY TALK VIDEO, Isabelle Wiemero explains why mutual fund investors must mind the fees they pay for their funds – and also how some fund expenses can be money well-spent. This is the latest installment in the Mutual…

  • Mutual Fund 101 Quiz – The answers

    Check your answers to the Mutual Fund 101 Quiz below. Click on the links beneath each group of answers to see the related Money Talk Videos.  To peruse all of the Mutual Fund 101 videos, click here on Landaas.com or here on the Landaas Money Talk YouTube channel. 1. Academic research has credited more than 90% of…

  • Mutual Fund 101 Quiz

    Test your knowledge of mutual fund investing and link to our Mutual Fund 101 educational videos. […]

  • Talking Money: Benchmark

    By Chris Evers Investment benchmarks are tools that summarize the performance of a broad market to gauge the relative performance of a specific investment. Benchmarks provide important perspective. By measuring the performance of an investment against the proper benchmark, investors can see how well their investment has done relative to the overall market in which…