Everyday Finance

The author has a background in Chemical Engineering and an MBA specializing in Finance and Biotech Management. Enamored by investing and saving since a teen, the author has been an advocate for optimized investment returns and strategies.

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Everyday Finance's Latest Articles | 62

An ETF for Rising Inflation

May 13, 2013| 

Low interest rates are starting to fuel an economic fire. In the financial markets, I believe low-yield alternatives are leading investors to pay up for less attractive... Read »

Why the Rich Keep Getting Richer

May 3, 2013| 

There’s a recent headline making the rounds of late showing that the rich keep getting richer while the rest either tread water or fall behind.  Consider this... Read »

Media is Red Hot for Good Reasons

Apr 29, 2013| 

Netflix (NFLX) may be this year’s best performer as a provider of internet TV, but investors are seeing impressive gains in media as a whole. PowerShares Dynamic... Read »

A Low(er) Volatility Mid Cap Fund

Apr 22, 2013| 

When iShares isn’t too busy leading the world of exchange traded products, it’s designing new funds to take public. One of its newest launches, the MSCI USA... Read »

The 4% Rule is Dead, but these ETFs Might Help

Apr 2, 2013| 

The days of consistent 4% annual withdrawals from a retirement fund are long gone. A paper from Morningstar rejects the idea that anyone can pull 4% per year from... Read »

How Obama Goosed the Jobs Numbers

Mar 30, 2013| 

As long as I can remember, people have always complained about the accuracy of government-reported statistics and claims.  For instance, every year, the government... Read »

Yahoo’s (YHOO) Work from Home Controversy

Feb 26, 2013| 

This past week, Yahoo’s (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer announced a ban on employees working from home. This, in a culture where many, many employees were used to doing... Read »

Gold and the Greater Fool

Feb 25, 2013| 

Famed investing legends are dumping their gold holdings. George Soros dropped his stash of gold (held in the popular SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)) while Louis Moore Bacon... Read »

Unintended Consequences of QE and Low Interest Rates

Feb 21, 2013| 

I couldn’t help but notice today’s note from the EIA that if you exclude the 2008 spike in oil prices (to be fair, seemingly a unique anomaly and unsustained)... Read »

The Buyback ETF that Crushes the Market Year After Year

Feb 6, 2013| 

With interest rates at record lows, corporate cash balances at record highs, and tax policy visibility as low as it could ever be, corporate spending on buybacks... Read »

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