Why Most of the Investment Advice You've Heard is Wrong... and What This Womanizer Can Teach You About Investing

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.) This week, you'll find... This index has beaten even the S&P 500 this year... The hottest emerging market plays... The "Slap In The Face" Award: Free Checking Edition... You can check it out in this video. The One Stock Wall Street Never Talks About You would think when the biggest investment houses own tens of millions of shares in a company, it would get a little attention in the press. Yet nobody I've talked to has any idea that a $300-billion project is going to send this company's stock on a rise never before witnessed in the financial world. Here's everything you need to know for a chance to make thousands by the fourth quarter... Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Why Most of the Investment Advice You've Heard is Wrong A conversation with a friend last week sounded numbingly familiar... "I just can't seem to win for losing in the stock market," he confessed. "Five years ago, my broker had me fully invested in stocks and I took a drubbing. Then when things were bottoming out a couple years later, he talked me into making my portfolio more conservative. As a result, I didn't get much of a pop on the rebound. Now he's trying to get me to reshuffle again. But I'm too scared to do anything." Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Why You Should Invest in Growth, Not Value Patrick Henry famously declared that he knew no way of judging the future but by the past. So if you're putting together a long-term investment portfolio, it might be wise to look at the historical returns for various types of assets. Not just for the past few years, or for several decades, but for the past couple centuries. When you do this, you'll notice something interesting... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist What This Womanizer Can Teach You About Investing The "Father of Security Analysis" wasn't much of a husband or father. He divorced his first wife in 1937, when divorce was still socially unacceptable, leaving his four children stigmatized. The next year, he married a young actress. But his interest soon waned and he soon dumped her to marry his secretary. In between, he had so many lovers and affairs that in a new biography The Einstein of Money, the author calls him a "swinger." When he died in Provence at 87, it was in the arms of his long-time French mistress, whom he'd courted away from his son! Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Associate Investment Strategist The Three Keys to Investing in Biotech Stocks There's a children's book called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It chronicles a kid's day that starts off with him waking up with gum in his hair, and it gets worse from there. On Monday, many biotech investors had their own versions of Alexander's day, if they had money in two specific stocks... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst The Myth That All Markets Move Together I can't tell you how many times I've heard this comment: "Carl, it doesn't matter where in the world I invest because markets always move together." Really? Than why is the Shanghai Composite down 40% since August 2009 while the S&P 500 is up 45%? Click here to read full story Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at: www.InvestmentU.com How to Play Uranium's Coming Supply Shortage Buy What Ben Bernanke is Buying and Make a Profit Will Your Next Smartphone Have Wood in It? Five Below (Nasdaq: FIVE): A Post-Facebook IPO Market Success Story

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