Minnesota company retirement plan participants don’t have a great deal of time to spend making investment management decisions in their company retirement plan accounts. The summer of 2012 is fading fast. The kids are back in school in just a few weeks. Who has time...
In Minnesota, like other large metropolitan areas, the financial media is everywhere. The popularity of financial media is largely due to the fact that so many companies have figured out so many ways to keep individual investors engaged in economic and financial...
During the last great stock market decline of 2008-2009 many Minnesota company retirement plan participants remained 100% invested in stocks in their company retirement plan accounts. In the face of increasingly dire economic and stock market news, these...
Most Minnesota company retirement plan participants are a little bit familiar with the investment management concept of asset allocation. Their familiarity comes not from study or experience. Company retirement plan participants have heard about asset allocation...
Remember going away to summer camp as a kid? Growing up as I did in Minnesota, my parents and I looked forward to summer camp every year. My summer camps always involved sports. I went to basketball camp in my grade school years and football camp in my high school...
The anticipated U.S. economic and stock market recovery has not shown up yet. Housing, jobs, and economic growth were all supposed to have rebounded by now. Even the casual economic and stock market observers know that none of these basic economic conditions have...
