


Special Report: Meeting your retirement challenge–Part 2 Rethinking the retirement formulas
Part 2: Rethinking the strategies for retirement. Over the years, investors and money managers have developed back of the envelope formulas for thinking about investing for retirement. These rules have been around for most of the nearly 40 years I've been writing...
Special Report: How to meet your retirement challenge–Complete–Part 1 how we got into this mess (and what’s the size of the problem); Part 2 rethinking some of the strategies and formulas; Part 3 (A & B) strategies and picks
I’m going to divide this Special Report: How to meet your retirement challenge” into three parts. Today, Part 1 outlines the problem, its causes, and its likely duration. Tomorrow, Part 2 looks at the way the crisis has upended rules and assumptions about how to invest for retirement. Part 3 gives you concrete strategies and investment recommendations for meeting the crisis. You’ll find all 3 parts in this post (finally).

Nidec is my fourth pick for my Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks
I can't imagine the world avoiding a global warming catastrophe without a sizable contribution from reduced carbon emissions as we replace vehicles powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles. (Yes, this is to some extent a solution that merely pushes the problem...
Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks–Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks–6 Stage One picks, my first Stage Two pick
According to John Lennon, "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." That's also true of the global warming. Â ("Climate change," if you want, but I prefer "global warming" because heat is the fuel driving climate change whether the change is...
4th pick for Special Report 10 Stocks to Beat Amazon–SGEN
My fourth pick in my Special Report "10 Stocks to Beat Amazon" is a biotech, Seattle Genetics (SGEN). Biotech companies spend years developing their first successful drug. And then spend more years turning that first drug into a pipeline of drugs and expanded labels....
2nd pick for Special Report 10 Stocks to Beat Amazon–Intuitive Surgical
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Special Report: 10 Stocks to Beat Amazon–Part 1 Why Amazon is such a tough stock to beat and why my first pick Illumina jumps the hurdle; second pick Intuitive Surgical, third pick is ASML, fourth pick is Seattle Genetics, fifth pick is Danaher, sixth pick Thermo Fisher
Amazon (AMZN). Maybe you've heard of it. It's been one of the great stocks of the best--well, however long. As of June 15, Morningstar puts the stock's 15-year return at an average of 33.11% a year. That's the kind annual performance that you need to show to be a...
Special Report: 10 Stocks Better Than Amazon to post this weekend
Sorry for the delay. My deepest apologies. My daughter graduates high school on Monday and things have been a bit chaotic (with excitement) in our house this past week. Go Class of 2020! To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some...
Bonus to my Special Report: 5 stocks for after the coronavirus (5 of 5 posted so far)
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buy the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that different...
Special Report Part 2: Calls to “re-open the economy” increase–what’s my investing strategy for that?
President Donald Trump has made it clear that his preference is to re-open the economy by May 1. Administration officials including economic advisors Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro, and Attorney General William Barr have taken to repeating the mantra "The cure can't...