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Tax-Managing Your Investment Portfolio: There’s Still Time to Cut Your 2008 Taxes
Investment legend John Templeton insisted that everyone’s long-term investment goal should be the same: maximum total return after taxes.
In my experience, investors spend plenty of time thinking about risk and return, but not enough about taxes. That’s unfortunate. Especially since – unlike the stock market, interest rates or inflation – taxes are controllable.
Yet too many investors are surrendering far more to the taxman than they should. A Vanguard study, for example, found that the typical investor is giving up 2% a year to the IRS.
That’s nearly 20% of the long-term return of the S&P 500. How can you stop this…
4Dec2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | ContinuedCredit Crisis Safety Plays: Banking Ratings Report Can Provide Peace of Mind and Warn You if Your Bank is Weak
When federal banking regulators last week seized the Houston-based Franklin Bank SSB (FBTX), it became the 18th bank failure this year amid the ongoing credit crisis. With total assets of $5.1 billion and total deposits of $3.7 billion, Franklin wasn’t the largest bank failure this year – that honor belongs to IndyMac Bancorp Inc. (OTC: IDMCQ), which had more than $30 billion in estimated assets when it was seized by U.S. banking regulators in July. At the time, IndyMac was also the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history, reaching all the way back to 1934, U.S. News & World Report said…
14Nov2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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