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How Michael Burry Bet Big Against the Housing Market and Wall Street and Won
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

In 2004, while the housing market was going strong and Wall Street was churning out mortgage backed securities, a former Dr. and now hedge fund manager named Michael Burry began to take big bets...

Article | Mar 3, 2010 | Views: 619 | Comments: 0

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Malcolm Gladwell and your Personal Finances
Submitted by Sean Riskowitz  (bestcashcow.com)

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point is a popular read at the moment, gracing many of the world's best seller lists. What exactly is Gladwell talking about and what is there to learn from a...

Article | Feb 19, 2010 | Views: 325 | Comments: 1
Tags: blink, taleb, gladwell, kiyosaki, pinker, tipping point, outliers

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Harvard's Endowment Drops 22%; Marks Popping of Higher Ed Bubble
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Harvard today announced that its endowment had dropped by 22% or $8 billion. The loss is greater than the total endowments of all but 4 universities. This marks the popping of one of the last...

Article | Dec 3, 2008 | Views: 1569 | Comments: 0
Tags: harvard, harvard endowment loss, college bubble

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Brokerage Sweep Accounts Offer Safety but Awful Return
Submitted by BankMan  (bestcashcow.com)

Millions of investors have parked their cash in brokerage sweep accounts. In most cases, this is a bad idea.

Article | Mar 2, 2009 | Views: 969 | Comments: 0
Tags: high yield, brokerage sweep accounts, cash yields

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Sallie Mae Offering High-Interest CDs
Submitted by CA Hagy  (bestcashcow.com)

Sallie Mae is one of the newest entrants into the online banking industry. What can you expect from their online savings accounts and CDs?

Article | Mar 8, 2010 | Views: 92 | Comments: 0
Tags: cd rates, online cd rates, sallie mae online banking, online banking companies

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Analysis of Oil, Gold, Stock, and Deposit Returns Shows Capital Preservation is Key Strategy
Submitted by Sol Nasisi  (bestcashcow.com)

The graph below shows what the return on this strategy would look like. I was a bit surprised at just how well it did. Clearly, preserving capital, even when it is stashed in unsexy, lower yielding...

Article | Oct 11, 2009 | Views: 484 | Comments: 0

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PIMCO Auction Rate Security Holders Money Still Not Liquid
Submitted by Sam Cass  (www.bloomberg.com)

Pimco, one of the largest bond companies in the world hasn't been redeeming its preferred auction rate security holders. It's still working through the mechanism of how to get the money back....

Article | May 31, 2008 | Views: 2610 | Comments: 13 
Tags: auction rate securities, pimco

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Money Market Fund Primary Fund (RFIXX) Freezes Redemptions
Submitted by Sol Nasisi  (bestcashcow.com)

One of the largest money market funds has frozen redemptions for seven days as the net asset value of its shares falls below $1. THIS IS A MONEY MARKET FUND, NOT A MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT. MONEY...

Article | Sep 16, 2008 | Views: 2472 | Comments: 1
Tags: money market fund, primary fund, the reserve

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The No-Stock Portfolio - Decent Returns with Less Risk
Submitted by ktexas  (www.kiplinger.com)

This Kiplinger article has non-stock investments which are claimed to provide respectable yields with less risk than stocks. Some that were mentioned include blue-chip IOUs, REIT preferreds and...

Article | Dec 16, 2008 | Views: 476 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonds, income, investing, personal finance, mutual funds, reits, dividends

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Commodities Futures Market for Trading Future Movie Performance
Submitted by ktexas  (www.cnbc.com)

A division of Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Entertainment, recently filed for regulatory approval with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for a commodities futures market called the...

Article | Dec 14, 2008 | Views: 479 | Comments: 0 
Tags: market, trading, commodities, entertainment industry, exchange, futures

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Putnam closes money market fund; Columbia, Dreyfus act to save $1 a share net asset value
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

More turbulence in the money market fund world as fallout from the Lehman collapse continues. Putnam closed its $12.3 billion Putnam Prime Money Market Fund while Dryfus and Columbia (a division...

Article | Sep 18, 2008 | Views: 1395 | Comments: 0
Tags: money market funds, safe cash investments

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Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze Cries Over Obama Treatment in Chrysler Bankruptcy
Submitted by Sam Cass  (bestcashcow.com)

Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze is complaining because the government's bankruptcy settlement for Chrysler puts the worker's underfunded pension obligations above his bond investments. He...

Article | May 20, 2009 | Views: 371 | Comments: 1
Tags: hedge funds, george schultze, schultze asset management

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Is It Really Worth $200,000 to Graduate from a Private University?
Submitted by Oliver Reedy  (bestcashcow.com)

I recently learned that it would cost me $200,000 to graduate from my Alma mater. It made me wonder if the cost was worth it.

Article | Jun 29, 2007 | Views: 1095 | Comments: 8
Tags: college, college tuition, university, university tuition

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Banks giving away free stuff
Submitted by bankinvestor  (www.money-rates.com)

Banks seem more competitive than ever to give away free gifts, cash, or other rewards to bring in new online customers. I think these deals might get even better if interest rates get lower and it...

Article | Oct 19, 2007 | Views: 904 | Comments: 1 
Tags: rewards, banks, online, free, specials

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Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
Submitted by ktexas  (www.nytimes.com)

After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one, life-insurance securitizations....

Article | Sep 5, 2009 | Views: 148 | Comments: 0 
Tags: bonds, insurance, life insurance, risk, securities, investment, insurance industry, securitization, life settlements



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