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 [...]

When Correlations Collide

If you pick up any finance textbook, it’ll tell you that international diversification is good. International diversification is good because the returns on stocks in different stock markets, in different regions, are supposed to be un-correlated, hence falling markets in one region can be offset by growth in other regions. The key phrase in that [...]

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 [...]

Is the United States an “Emerging Market”?

When finance professionals learn about investing in the emerging markets, they are taught to look out for certain key statistics that can provide indications of whether those markets are suitable candidates for investment.
Some of the main indicators looked at include the country’s:

Budget Deficit to GDP: A general guideline is that ratios greater than 4% indicate [...]

It’s Time To Accept The C$ At Parity

It has been a long time coming, but investors need to start seeing that the C$ belongs at parity to the US$, if not even higher. The C$ first breached parity in late 2007 when it became stronger than the US$ and in subsequent weeks literally skyrocketed to 1.0722 as speculators in the C$-US$ trade [...]

Blogger Interivew – Kid Dynamite

In our first featured Blogger Interview, Young & Invested is pleased to bring you the thoughts and views of Kid Dynamite, one of the most followed bloggers on Seeking Alpha, with more than 9,300 followers. He shares with us his opinions on some of the major issues confronting investors in this market.
Kid Dynamite is [...]

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 [...]