By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business New York (CNN Business)BlackRock has an ETF for virtually any niche you might want to invest in. Now BlackRock has launched a new suite of products so investors can tackle so-called “megatrends.”The new exchange-traded funds promise to be the purest way to access emerging areas, including robotics and AI, genomics, energy […]
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By Nick Penzenstadler and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, USA TODAY Updated 9:34 a.m. CDT June 13, 2019 n a stealth aftershock of the Great Recession, nearly 100,000 loans that allowed senior citizens to tap into their home equity have failed, blindsiding elderly borrowers and their families and dragging down property values in their neighborhoods. In many cases, the worst toll has […]
Diana Olick @DIANAOLICK Competition is fierce among flippers, because the returns are falling. Nationwide, flippers saw an average return on their investment of about 39% in the first quarter of this year, down from 42.5% in the previous quarter. The number of flips are down 8% annually, so the stakes are up. Investor Daniel DiGiacomo […]
By: STEPHEN MCBRIDE Today we’ll bust a big lie about investing. This big lie keeps many investors down. Belief in it is a tall hurdle to building wealth. How many times have you heard a statement like this? “The only way to make big profits is to take big risks.” This is the conventional wisdom. It gets […]
By Vicky BakerBBC News in Texas and Alabama Televangelist Todd Coontz has a well-worn routine: he dresses in a suit, pulls out a Bible and urges viewers to pledge a very specific amount of money. “Don’t delay, don’t delay,” he urges, calmly but emphatically. It sounds simple, absurdly so, but Coontz knows his audience extremely […]
Listen on: iTunes | Google Podcasts | Online Recently my firm was hiring a junior analyst – someone who’d work directly with me. In the past we’d post an advertisement and get hundreds of resumes and we’d have to dig through them trying to identify a candidate with the right pedigree and relevant experience.We have probably employed thirty interns over […]
Frugality is in my bones. From attending a community college before public university to living with my wife in a stunning tree house that I built from salvaged materials to driving my 15-year-old Volvo – I’ve always avoided expensive stuff. Here are my sometimes silly cheapskate tricks I’ve collected from a long life of adventures, at […]