Young and Invested

Short-term Versus Long-term Investments

So you’ve saved up money from your summer job or internships (or career), and are ready to dabble in the world of investments. Fantastic! Choosing investments is both exciting and challenging; there are numerous investment options that you can explore, and the ones you may end up choosing will likely be based on your personality [...]

Expert Interview – Puru Saxena

In our first edition of Expert Interview, Y&I is very excited to bring you the insights of Puru Saxena, founder of Puru Saxena Wealth Management (http://www.purusaxena.com/). Based in Hong Kong, Puru has his finger on the pulse of the East markets, and provides investment advice and asset management for numerous clients. As a highly regarded [...]

Memory of a Crisis

A few prominent investment banks wiped, a crashed housing market, oil prices plummeted, investors running from the market bears, people hoarding the last remaining gold, American automakers in serious peril … sounds like a financial hurricane went through in 2009, doesn’t it?
Looking back at it now, one question still glows in embers – who was [...]

Blogger Interview – Babak

In this edition of Blogger Interview, Y&I is very excited to bring you the insights of Babak, one of the brightest young financial bloggers online, and a highly  followed blogger on Seeking Alpha, with more than 4,600 regular readers. He shares with us his opinions on some of the major issues confronting investors in this [...]

Discount Rate Past not Predictor of Future

A few months ago, we were warned by the Fed that the borrowing rate will increase with “greater force than is customary”… then they waited a few long months to act on the warning. So should we, as investors, be surprised? Not really, we expected it. But in order to appreciate the effects of the [...]

SEC Traffic Light – Green if Disclosure is Green

As our civilization moves into the future, future generations will have their minds boggled at how our attitude towards Earth was anything but mindful. Luckily, we are standing at a cornerstone of a green revolution where organizations and individuals are beginning to internalize the right attitude to preserve our home; the SEC is fortunately one [...]

Toyota: Catalyst for Shift in Auto Industry

The recent recall from Toyota may help approximately nine million vehicles, but not the company’s stock.           
As of today, 5 fatalities have been reported, and lawmakers around the world continue to monitor Toyota’s reactive actions to the allegedly sticking gas pedals. As responsive as Toyota has been in handling the situation, it won’t be soon forgotten; [...]

Will Stock History Repeat in 2010?

The S&P500 index has never declined in the second year of a bull market. This is applicable to all individual sectors in the S&P as well, which have never placed an overall decline in the second year of a bull market. To elaborate more on this statistic, over the last half-century, the S&P 500 gained [...]

Low Volume Can’t Stop the Bull

Hi investor – enjoying 52-week highs for every stock in your portfolio? It might stay that way for another year or so, despite the recent declines in aggregate market trading volumes. There’s no denying that we’ve been in a seasonal bull market rally for the last year, as started by the rocketed sell-off volumes in [...]

Overpaying for Luxury Clothing? Bet You Never Thought Ralph Lauren Can Make YOU Money

Ralph Lauren’s outperforming of earnings estimated for the 9-months ended September got the company and stock a lot of attention; RL beat S&P’s earnings estimate of $1.25 by $0.50, a 40% surprise, while still suffering a 4% decrease in sales (also above average expectations of -8%). Considering the recession we’ve been in, Polo Ralph Lauren’s [...]