Evan
Simonoff is editor-in-chief and editorial director of Financial Advisor
magazine, as well as editorial director of Private Wealth magazine. He
has spent more than 15 years as an editor and reporter covering the
financial services industry. Evan is a widely recognized expert on
personal finance and investments.
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Evan Simonoff
I've always thought gold was a fool's investment--good for little else
besides jewelry--but when three of the smartest advisors I know have 10%
of clients' assets invested in the precious metal,...
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If advisors were stunned by a finding from the Putnam Institute that the
optimal retirement portfolio's equity allocation should be between 5%
and 25%, they weren't alone...
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Evan Simonoff
Distracted by headlines, financial advisors and other U.S. investors may
be missing the best investment opportunity for the next decade: U.S. equities, says Richard Bernstein.
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The former president showed his well-known sense of humor and his less well-known sense of perspective at the Pershing annual Insite conference.
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Evan Simonoff
In early May, I had the opportunity to attend an intriguing session at a
conference that dealt with the subject of money and gender,
specifically women...
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News that Pimco's legendary Bill Gross is launching an active ETF that will be managed in a style
very similar to his mammoth Total Return funds raised more than a few
eyebrows...
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Evan Simonoff
The next major political party in this nation will be the
Taxes-Are-Too-Damn-Low Party, DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach
told his clients and shareholders on Tuesday.
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The odds are five out of six, or about 83%, that interest rates will
rise, albeit with breaks and intervals, for the next 20 years,
according to Loomis Sayles vice chairman Dan Fuss...
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An immigration policy consistent with America's heritage and highest
ideals could dramatically spur economic growth and solve many of our
problems, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told attendees...
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The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has prompted many financial commentators and others to plant their feet firmly in their mouths.
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In case you hadn't noticed, 2011 is less than two months old and it's already turning out to be a very tough year for the planet's dictators...
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Even though equity prices have broken through their pre-Lehman levels,
Wharton School of Finance professor Jeremy Siegel told TD Ameritrade Institutional's annual conference in San Diego he still...
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Is the municipal bond market in the same state of denial as the equity
and mortgage-backed securities markets were in late 2007? Jeffrey
Gundlach, the founder of Doubleline who put together a...
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Larry Kudlow is downright delirious on CNBC. Byron Wien at Blackstone
thinks the S&P 500 will hit 1,500 at some point this year...
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Most of the world is under the mistaken belief that the Fed is "printing money and spraying it around the world," Anthony Crescenzi, senior vice president and market strategist at Pimco, said...
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