How to Tell If You're Rich and... Don't Buy This Losing Investment Advice

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

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 Deep-Water Driller to Double Its Dividend By 2017? Which Company is Poised to Dominate the Cloud? The "Slap In The Face" Award: "Legalize It" Edition... You can check it out in this video. Sponsored The Demise of Silicon (It Starts Today) A group of maverick scientists has "accidentally" discovered an odd substance that overturns centuries-old limits of engineering. It carries electricity faster than any other substance on earth... up to a hundred times speedier than silicon! Our research shows it could revolutionize a $357 billion consumer electronics market... and push one company's $9 stock through the roof. Full report here. Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist How to Tell If You're Rich One of the biggest points of contention in the last election was whether the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Polls show the majority of voters don't believe they do. Of course, this begs the questions: Who is "rich" and what is "fair?" Answers are largely a matter of opinion... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Don't Buy This Losing Investment Advice I recently updated The Oxford Club's conservative asset-allocation strategy using Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs. It's been a great decade, as this investment approach has not only beaten the S&P 500, but the vast majority of professional money managers, including Warren Buffett. And not by a little. However, some observers have noted that our performance would have been even better if we had included commodities in the mix. Hindsight is always 20/20, of course. But there are good reasons to believe that while commodities have had a terrific run over the past decade, they are likely to cool off in the years ahead... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Associate Investment Strategist Don't Ignore This Emerged Market This previously labeled emerging market is now the seventeenth most developed in the world. It has grown its GDP by 7% per year over the past 10 years, and has an unemployment rate of 6.6%. In 2013, its GDP is projected to grow 3.8%, versus 2.5% in the United States. It spends more on education as a percentage of its budget than the United States. (And gets results.) And its stock market has outperformed the S&P 500 by over 200 percentage points over the past 13 years. Since January 1999, the S&P 500 has risen 19%. This country's market has climbed 248%... Click here to read full story Matthew Carr Senior Analyst A Stock Market Forecast for 2013... Can we know where the market is headed before the year even gets underway? That's always the question, isn't it? At the start of the year, there're all kinds of predictions about where the market is going to head. All the big, bold predictions come out. And we'll see articles that discuss indicators like "Where January goes, the market follows..." But that's hogwash... Click here to read full story Invest Like Al Capone by David Eller Senior Analyst, Investment U Say what you want about the mafia... But besides knowing how to dress, they also know how to find sustainable cash businesses. While I don't condone their business tactics (or those from some existing large-cap public companies)... There's one thing we can learn from the history of "this thing of ours"... 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 Health Care REIT, Inc.: Taking Advantage of a Monumental Trend The Cheaper iPhone is Good for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Here's Why New 401(k) Rules Following the Fiscal Cliff Compromise 2013 Consumer Electronics Show: What Investors Should Watch

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