Charles Sizemore – Page 22 – Smarter Investing

Surprisingly, the children of the baby boomers are now the most conservative investors - a buy signal?

Risk aversion ad absurdum

Japan’s economy has been a slow motion train wreck for the past 20 years.

The lie, of course, is that you can get money for nothing, that it is possible—and even easy—to beat the market without doing any real work.

A cheap stock can always get cheaper and it pays to cut your losses early.

Skip the canvases and go to the trend driving returns: the rise of the global nouveau riche.

2011's volatility will be burned into investors’ memories for a long time to come.

Right now, the best pricing is in European dividend payers.

Be sure to check the sector allocation of an ETF to see if it really accomplishes what you're out to achieve.

The interview with the WSJ's Evan Newmark was a followup to Charles' MarketWatch article on investing in Germany at this moment of crisis in Europe.

To borrow what Winston Churchill said about the Americans, “European politicians will do the right thing after exhausting all other options.”

Risk on, risk off. No four words could better describe the frustrating year that was 2011.

Sometimes it is really hard to believe that Wall Street is run by serious, highly-educated professionals.