The Greatest Risk To Your Wealth in 2013 and... Your Best Financial Resolutions for 2013

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Sunday, January 6, 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... Apple Stock Looks Dirt Cheap... How to Play the End of Physical Cash... The "Slap In The Face" Award: Entitlement Edition... You can check it out in this video. Sponsored Ride the Market's Current Rally The new year so far has been great for the markets... But at The Oxford Club, that rally is just icing on the cake. The current Oxford Club recommendations finished 2012 sporting a 90% win-rate, with individual gains as high as 191%, 149%, 155%, 78%, 60% and 90%. And, as of right now, the recommended portfolio is up an average of 55%. To find out how this financial society could give you your highest returns in 2013, just go here. Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Your Best Financial Resolutions for 2013 Here we are, another year gone by. This is the time of year for making New Year's resolutions. And I have four that are guaranteed to make your portfolio bigger, fatter and wider a year from now. So listen up... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Why the Lousy Outlook is Good for Stocks in 2013 USA Today recently ran a column reviewing the 2013 stock market forecasts of Wall Street's leading firms. It was a tad underwhelming. The most bullish stance comes from Citigroup, which sees the S&P 500 climbing 14%. The most bearish forecast came from Wells Fargo. It sees the S&P 500 dropping 2% in the year ahead. That's not terribly pessimistic. And it underscores the perpetual optimism of Wall Street, which needs clients and customers to buy stocks and do transactions. The stock market could drop a lot more than 2% next year. If I were to hazard a guess, however, I'd say it won't. The market, if anything, may just do surprisingly well next year. Here's why... Click here to read full story The Greatest Risk To Your Wealth in 2013 by Andrew Snyder Editorial Director, Investment U The ringing in of a new year is a bittersweet celebration. As the seconds ticked off the clock last night, a rush of emotions rolled through my mind. For a lagging moment, it was as if I was back inside the stark white delivery room of our local hospital waiting for my son to be born. "One more push," the doc looked up at me and said, "and you'll be a dad." Whooaaa... stop the clock. Time out. Hit the brakes... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Associate Investment Director My Investment U Report Card for 2012 Investment U is filled with articles that are designed to make you a better investor. Hopefully, throughout the year, you learned some techniques, strategies and new ways of looking at the market. Throughout the year, along with the columns that are more educational in nature, I have made predictions, both macro and about individual stocks and sectors. I may not always be correct (as you'll see below), but I do hold myself accountable for what I write... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst Invest in the "Dogs of the World" At this time of the year, you can count on gurus and pundits to deliver an avalanche of two types of articles. The first is predictions for 2013 that, I'll admit, have a chance of becoming true. The second is lists of what markets performed best during the previous year, suggesting that you better jump on the bandwagon or you'll miss the boat... 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 Uranium: Have We Finally Reached a Tipping Point? Why These Tech Firms Could Get a Boost From Obamacare AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO): The Perfect Play for Rising Food Demand? Is Twitter Making the Stock Market Predictable?

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