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Top 10 Investments for 2010

{ Posted on Jan 15 2010 by andy }
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Categories : Economics, Guest, Investing, Investing Ideas
Top 10 Investments for 2010 The arrival of 2010 brings the hope for a better year when it comes to our investments. Many of us have been rattled to the core over the course of the recent recession and have had ...Read More »

Macroaxis added Stocks, Funds and ETFs from developed and emerging markets

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by Ellen }
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Categories : All, Investing Ideas, Macroaxis
Macroaxis Corporation added more global markets to its platform incorporating access to Stocks, ETFs, and Funds that are traded on exchanges in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. As international trade increases and the world financial markets become more ...Read More »

Today macroaxis released next version of its wealth management collaboration platform.

{ Posted on Apr 01 2009 by Ellen }
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Categories : All, Investing Ideas, Macroaxis
Macroaxis (http://www.macroaxis.com) just released next version of its wealth management collaboration platform.  The release was aimed to address usability issues reported by users as well as to fix few support tickets reported by users against portfolio optimization and suggestion modules. [caption ...Read More »

Macroaxis released new ETF Browser

{ Posted on Feb 01 2009 by Ellen }
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Categories : Alerts, All, Featured, Investing Ideas, Macroaxis
In response to recent demand for Exchange Traded Funds, Macroaxis released its new ETF browser. The new explorer-like tool is an addition to Macroaxis existing family of wealth management presentation components and portfolio optimization modules An Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) is a ...Read More »

The Enterprising Investor’s Guide 11-24-08

{ Posted on Nov 24 2008 by Ockham Research Staff }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Ockham
The market continued its march downward and, even after a relatively large Friday rally, the S&P 500 still finished down 8.4%.  The price-to-peak earnings ratio has again reached another low at 9.0x.  Clearly, this valuation metric is closely following the ...Read More »

Capital Asset Pricing Model [CAPM]

{ Posted on Oct 24 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Learning, Money, Results
The CAPM is a model for pricing an individual security or a portfolio. For individual securities, we made use of the security market line (SML) and its relation to expected return and systematic risk (beta) to show how the market ...Read More »

Measuring Portfolio Risk

{ Posted on Oct 23 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Learning
The risk of a portfolio comprises systematic risk, also known as undiversifiable risk, and unsystematic risk which is also known as idiosyncratic risk or diversifiable risk. Systematic risk refers to the risk common to all securities - i.e. market risk. ...Read More »

Diversification

{ Posted on Oct 23 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas
Every possible asset combination can be plotted in risk-return space, and the collection of all such possible portfolios defines a region in this space. The line along the upper edge of this region is known as the efficient frontier (sometimes ...Read More »

Bond market volatility

{ Posted on Oct 22 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Learning
For market participants who own a bond, collect the coupon and hold it to maturity, market volatility is irrelevant; principal and interest are received according to a pre-determined schedule. But participants who buy and sell bonds before maturity are exposed to ...Read More »