Wifts Investment Group

I can’t believe it’s been two months since my last post. I have been busy with the holidays and other stuff. But the 5% drop in the stock market brought me back to writing again. I just wanted to update everyone what we have been up to lately in terms of our stock transactions.
As I [...]

As I mentioned in the My Investment Diary post, I bought Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) at $32.2, which looked attractive based on my value analysis on 2 Nov, 2008. However, with the recent decline in the oil price, BHI has been going down. Although I wasn’t doubting my decision to buy, I kept wondering what [...]

You probably heard it today. It’s official now. The U.S is in a recession. In fact, the U.S. has been in a recession since December of last year according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) report released today. Many people believe a recession is two consecutive quarter of negative GDP, which hasn’t happened [...]

In the first three parts of this series, I talked about different options for retirement and non-retirement accounts. I also mentioned that most of the investment in those accounts should be in the form of stock mutual funds. In this post, I am going to talk about one of the fundamental principle of investing: diversification [...]

This is part III of a four part series on how to get started in investing. You may also want to read part one and part two.
Part III: Non-Retirement Investment
In part I and part II, I talked mostly about saving for your retirement. Saving for retirement gives some great tax benefits. Therefore, everyone should participate [...]