In September 2005 S&P (Standard & Poor’s) issued “Who will be left holding the bag?” in what would turn out to be a prescient report about the housing market and mortgage backed securities. Around the same time certain investment banks […]
Daily Archives: June 25, 2013
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HFT (High frequency trading) and the continuing SEC debate requiring a uniform fiduciary standard of care pose two potential strikes against trustees of family and charitable trusts, Pension (Corporate, Union and State, County and City Public Employees) and 401k plans, […]
The Uniform Prudent Investor Act was adopted by the Uniform Laws Commission in 1994 and since then has been adopted into law by 43 states, some states already had similar statutes prior to 1994. Trusts are governed by UPIA […]
Individual and institutional investors often approach Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium or Rare Earth minerals for many of the same reasons and with similar expectations but wind up with vastly different results and sometimes dramatic losses. What happens in the metals […]