January 30, 2007 – Many people have asked me what exactly is the long tail of investment strategies because that is what I advocate as the best and safest way to make huge gains in the stock market. I have started to update resources on our website, including some new pages soon that will contain [...]

January 25, 2007 – Well this week’s casual Friday Blog is not so much a blog about investing & martial arts as it is a blog about the investing & the film The Matrix. The Matrix is one of my favorite movies because besides the dialogue being so stellar, much of the Matrix is an [...]

January 23, 3007 – Just taking a contrarian position all the time doesn’t mean that you will be right. It takes a much deeper understanding that can be achieved by utilizing the proper information channels that are now available as the information world continues to flatten. Last year, Steve Forbes, publisher of the noted Forbes [...]

January 21, 2007 – Defined within the realm of the statistical Bell Curve, the long tail would reside in the skinny tail at the borders. The long tail, in regards to goods and services, refers to the evolution away from mainstream offerings towards more niche products and services. With the internet drastically reducing the costs [...]

January 18, 2007 – Most financial consultants that work for a large global investment firm need about U.S. $50 million of assets under management to make a decent living in a metropolitan region. Using this as a benchmark, let’s break down what this figure means to you as a client. It’s highly unlikely that a [...]

January 16, 2007- This is Part III, the final segment of the reasons why the long tail of investing will make you far wealthier than any traditional strategy or analysis. More on this topic (What's this?) Preferred Stock Investing: The Income Alternative You Haven’t Considered (Investment U, 5/11/12) Measuring the Performance of the Ivy Portfolio [...]

January 7, 2007 – Many people think of any type of dollar denominated bonds, whether they are U.S. corporate bonds or U.S. Treasury bonds as a safe place to park your money for reliable sources of income stream. In fact, the U.S. Treasury Department on their own website, even tout U.S. Treasury Securities as a [...]

January 5, 2007 – Time for another format change in this blog. Every Friday will still remain the space for casual blog entries, but instead of J.S., from this date forward, every Friday, you’ll receive an entry from Kaeho’s Corner. Today, I’ll tell you how understanding the success of the top mixed martial artists in [...]

December 18, 2006 – Almost every single person that has ever been managed by a large global investment firm has seen the below chart. It’s called Determinants of Portfolio Performance, but I’ve renamed it Determinants of a Financial Consultant’s Asset Gathering Success, because such a title is far more accurate. Financial consultants tell you that [...]

December 12, 2006 – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammed Yunus, is worth writing about because he gave the world a model through his concept of microcredit and his founding of Grameen Bank to transform a group of people, the world’s poor, from an “un-bankable” sector to not only a “bankable” sector but a [...]

November 27, 2006 – Yes, an increase in the minimum wage laws in the U.S., as is likely to occur given the new Democratic Congress, will benefit retailers in the short term because the beneficiaries of such an increase will believe that they have extra cash in their pockets even if they don’t. What do [...]

November 20, 2006 – The following blog entry is a re-cycled entry from a magazine column that I write. I’m re-cycling this column because this article is a particular favorite of mine. However, don’t worry, you won’t see this blog degenerate into a blog of recycled ideas. 99% of my blog entries will be new. [...]

November 16, 2007 – The other day, Kaeho and I were discussing an article we both read entitled “What if Buddha Dated?” and both agreed that “What if Buddha Invested?” would make a great topic for the casual Friday blog entry. However, I decided to hand the duty of this blog to Kaeho. After you [...]