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This Week on Wall Street

So it has been a crazy week with a lot of selling, buying, and an emergency stop on short selling, affecting the way hedge funds trade.

Casey Smith • September 20, 2008

Capital-Gains Tax and The Election

Fact: Capital Gains lead to retirement and capital-gains taxes threaten your retirement income.

Casey Smith • September 19, 2008

What is Risk? Part 1

Risk of an investor's portfolio can have several meanings. However, in highly diversified portfolios the only meaningful risk is the risk that an investor will have less money in their portfolios at the end of their planned time horizon.

Casey Smith • September 5, 2008

A Picture of a Loser's Game

In the below video Jim Cramer gets upset about the mess of obvious insider trading that has occurred with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Casey Smith • August 27, 2008

ETFs v. ETNs: Part II, The ETN

ETNs (exchange traded notes) are only a couple years old but the idea has been around since the early 90s. They are "Structured Notes," a debt vehicle, usually with time to maturity of over ten years, where the issuer promises to pay the return of a set investment determined by the issuer, foreign currency is […]

Casey Smith • August 25, 2008

Some Wiser Advice

I wanted to highlight today some quotes from some very smart individuals that have weathered some tough market conditions and are now weathering or would be if alive the current market conditions.

Casey Smith • August 22, 2008

ETFs v. ETNs: Part 1: A focus on The ETF

Both ETFs (exchange traded funds) and ETNs (exchange traded notes have been making a lot of noise lately. Morningstar Inc. now tracks 89 ETNs with $7.3 billion in assets and 732 ETFs with $586 billion in assets.

Casey Smith • August 21, 2008

Why Currency Matters

As we know holding foreign assets, like foreign stock, benefits you when the US dollar back home is weak. In a recent observation made by the guys at IndexUniverse.com, they found that there is a huge difference between the returns made by foreign investor investing in their local markets and US investors investing in the same market.

Casey Smith • August 18, 2008

Welcome to Wiser Wealth Management in Marietta, GA

This site is intended to feature the research and observations of Wiser Wealth Management, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm in Marietta, Georgia. To preface all future postings, I would like to share and express our bias towards the investment strategy of indexing and building wealth through indexing. In the future, we will post many findings that […]

Casey Smith • August 15, 2008

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