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Holiday Travel – Stats and Stories [Sponsored Video]

December 20, 2012

This post is sponsored by BMW. For 2012, AAA projects 93.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the year-end holidays, which is 1.6% greater the 91.8 million people who traveled last year.  This stat alone got me thinking a bit.  Does this mean the economy is really improving?  I mean […]

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Jeep Heroes Program – And Veterans Special Offer [Sponsored Video]

November 27, 2012

Whenever I see a Jeep on the road, I hearken back to some of my old favorite war movies.  As the video below outlines, Jeep vehicles were leading our troops into battle all the way back to World War 2 and has been a mainstay of military equipment ever since. Here’s an interesting factoid for […]

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With Hurricane Sandy as Context, Is Your Company Protected?

November 16, 2012

It often takes a crisis to spur action for a business or personal preventative expenditure, but then shortly after the crisis has passed, it’s immediately back to the status quo.  Think about how many people on the East Coast lost power for days on end just over the past couple years with the various major […]

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Musings on the Election Outcome and Investment Returns

October 25, 2012

There’s a lot of different information and opinions flying around related to the upcoming presidential election, so I thought I’d add my 2 cents.  There are a few things worth watching, but in the end, frankly I don’t intend on making any theme-related investments leading into the election (or shortly thereafter).  I usually keep my […]

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It’s now easier than ever to do business in the UAE

October 23, 2012

In case you missed it, the Doing Business 2012 World Bank report ranks the UAE 33 out of 183 countries around the world in its ease of doing business index, a two-point jump compared to last year, placing it ahead of Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and other countries in the Middle East. Good news surely, if […]

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Will Germany take Greece to the slaughterhouse?

October 21, 2012

There has been plenty of talk about Greece leaving the Eurozone in the last two years, yet the beleaguered nation continues to hang on for its life. This may be about to change. Anders Borg, Sweden’s finance minister, was last weekend quoted as saying Greece may have to leave the Euro within six months. This […]

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Why ETFs are Taking Over the World

September 9, 2012

Over the past several years, we’ve seen ETF inflows increasing dramatically while mutual fund outflows seem to continue unabated. This has been driven by several factors ranging from better fee structures to lower tax liabilities to bad press on actively managed mutual fund performance and other factors. Here are some observations I’ve had in the […]

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Musings on Interest Rates

September 3, 2012

Since the Fed has projected that the Fed Funds rate will be virtually zero for another few years, investors may assume investments tied to interest rates will be range-bound during this period but nothing could be further from the truth.  For instance, with no major policy changes or announcements, we’ve seen the 10-Year Treasury yield […]

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Sponsored Video: New Zealand as a Destination

August 29, 2012

This post is sponsored by Tourism New Zealand: Ever been to New Zealand?  We haven’t made it there yet, but is certainly on the list once our kids are either old enough to travel or out of the nest.  Home more than just film sets of the Lord of the Rings franchise and multiple other […]

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