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Can you make money developing iPhone apps?

There's a gold rush around Apple iPhone apps right now, but how hard is it really to make money from the App Store? read more »
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Think you’ve spread your risk? Think again

Compared to the early 1990s, assets are more closely correlated making it harder to reduce risk in a portfolio. Here's the evidence, and some ideas [...] read more »
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7 ways to profit from other people’s folly

Understanding the flawed thinking of other investors can help you make bigger profits in the stock market. read more »
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What to buy a newborn niece?

Is it appropriate to invest for a newborn child, or should you buy something pretty and disposable instead? read more »
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Good Time For Canadians and Americans To Buy UK Dividend Stocks For Income on the Cheap

The FTSE 100 – the index of the top 100 companies in Britain – pays a higher average dividend yield than most of the world’s major markets, even afte[...] read more »
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Why borrowing to invest is a bad idea

Borrowing to invest -- even for the long-term -- is a poor strategy for success, increasing risk with little chance of much extra reward. read more »
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Capitalism 3.0

A leading Harvard professor argues we should rethink capitalism and curtail globalisation because of the financial crisis. But there's little eviden[...] read more »
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Does being a great investor mean you’ll live longer?

A long healthy life is not a benefit of investing we hear about often, but perhaps we should, since most of the truly great investors lived to see a [...] read more »
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Seven psychological quirks that destroy investment returns

How to avoid the biases and mental quirks that combine to reduce our stock market gains. read more »
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Crisis investing as swine flu panic spreads

Deciding if and how to respond to a global panic like the potential swine flu pandemic is one of the thorniest issues in stock market investing. read more »
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Strategies for investing in bear markets

The easiest way to sidestep all the agony of a bear market is to dollar-cost average into the market by regularly saving and investing into an equity[...] read more »
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How stop loss investing can save you money

The number one benefit of stop losses is they force you to be disciplined about your trading. They also reduce your risk, by limiting the amount you [...] read more »
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Who isn’t buying the market right now?

If you’re not at least trickling money into the markets at these levels then you might as well forget stock market investing altogether. read more »
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Quantitative easing: The uncomfortable truths

Quantitative easing sounds like a laxative, which is appropriate considering where it could take us... read more »
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Stocks vs corporate bonds

The key reasons why stocks will likely always do better than corporate bonds over longer time periods. read more »
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