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The Whole, and the Parts

The investment returns for 2011 are now officially in. It was a good year for many asset classes, like bonds, gold, and domestic stocks.  For others, like emerging markets, it was straight down.  I am happy to report that the four of the largest index positions at Osbon Capital – DIA, GLD, TIP, and VNQ – had positive returns ranging…

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Five lads a-laughing

It’s been a great investment year for some, awful for others, and mixed for many.  Time for a break, I say.  As our last piece for 2011 I present my favorite five authors who can just make me laugh. It’s a diverse lot, but they all have one thing in common; they resist the temptation to take the world and…

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Service, please. Please!

Let’s be honest. In many businesses, customer service is dead or dying. Stores without salespeople. Telephone “help” lines with endless prompts to nowhere. Call center reps who have no idea who you are, what you need, or how to help. In too many cases, service has become a casualty of indiscriminant cost cutting or just poor business strategy. When it…

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Your investment fitness checklist for 2012

Yes, it’s that time of year again. A time for lists – Christmas, New Year’s resolutions, among others. Add one more: your 2012 investment fitness checklist. If you want to wake up on New Years Day knowing that your portfolio is already at work just the way you would like it to be, use this checklist as your guide.

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Babson’s brilliant financial course

I was privileged earlier this week to be a guest lecturer in Professor Erik Sirri’s class at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Professor Sirri is unique, to my knowledge, in offering a course called Personal Financial Management for first-year MBAs at top schools.  Wow, do I wish that course were offered back in the day…

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The Armageddon portfolio

Two clients have recently requested an Armageddon portfolio from Osbon Capital, a portfolio designed to withstand and possibly even profit from horrible events yet to occur. Why would anyone want such a portfolio, and what does it look like?

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Giving large

Walk a mile in these shoes Imagine that you run a business where operating revenue is less than half of what you spend. Imagine that the demand for your product is growing as your income is shrinking.  Envision that costs are rising, your employee base is overworked and underpaid, and your business model sometimes includes giving away your product or service…

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It’s never too late to make smart choices

In recent weeks I’ve described the plan of an impressive 20-year-old investor seeking to amass a comfortable retirement nest egg. Some readers were no doubt mumbling to themselves: great for him, but I don’t have 42 years of investing ahead of me.  How about me, right now? Yes, time is a great advantage, but no matter your age, you have…

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The road to $5 million

Several weeks ago I described a conversation I had with a college junior who wanted to learn about how to get started in investing for his future. I challenged him to figure out what kind of investment plan he would need to accumulate $5 million for retirement over the next 43 years. Here’s the masterpiece he came up with.

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