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The intellectual property lawsuits between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung continue to go back and forth. The latest court decision hurts Apple. A U.K. court said that the Samsung Galaxy tablet did not infringe on any Apple patents. According to Reuters:
The Court of Appeal upheld its judgment that despite some similarities, Samsung did not infringe Apple's design, in part because its products were "not as cool" as the iPad.
The U.S. company was instructed to run ads saying the Korean company did not copy the iPad, both on its website and in selected newspapers.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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Happy Friday!
Wow...another week over. We woke up to a couple of inches of snow this morning and it stayed quite cold all day. We baked a delicious Apple Crisp with lots of cinnamon and raisins so the house smells amazing! The kinda thing that Realtors always say you should do just before an open house. Honestly, all I really feel like doing lately is baking. I don't bake much in the summer months because it gets quite hot in our kitchen in the afternoon and I don't like to add to it by having the oven on. But now that it is cooler I have so many recipes that I want to try.
A couple of weeks ago Kim@Eyesonthedollar left a comment on Friday's Circle of Friends saying that she was reminded of a song titled "Circle of Friends". I did a quick search on YouTube and found one. It sounds like a country song, and although I am not a big fan of country music, I do like it. Hopefully Kim will let us know if this is the tune she was thinking of.
Please take a listen while you scroll through this week's Friday's Circle of Friends blog posts, and see if you like it too.
Why It is Important to Have a Good Credit Score By: Debt and the Girl
How 2 PF Bloggers Saved Me $420 And Got Me A New Bed! By: Plunged in Debt
House Shopping: The Addiction Continues By: Club Thrifty
I hate making payments against my debt. So I got rid of the debt. By: MoneyafterGraduation
12 Crazy Disney Facts You Never Knew By: The Savvy Scot
Fun, Fabulous, Free Things To Do in My Favorite Vacation Cities By: Eyes on The Dollar
So you want to open a Tim Horton’s franchise By: Vanessa’s Money
How I paid back $25,653.87 in student loans two months after I graduated. By: Cents of A Country Girl
Best Mixed Drinks You’ve Probably Never Heard Of By: Add Vodka
Budgeting Tips: How to Menu Plan Like a Kindergartner By: ReadyForZero
When to Quit Being an Entrepreneur By: Thirty Six Months
5 Steps To Take Towards Getting Financially Fit By: YoungAdultMoney
4 Easy Ways to Avoid Holiday Debt By: Frugal Rules
Saving Money While Job Hunting By: Making Sense of Cents
What do you have planned for the weekend? Something fun?
Have a great weekend Everyone!!
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Over a 24-year career, Roger McNamee has been one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley, having made venture investments in Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Intuit, and Rambus, among many others. Then, in 2004, he launched Elevation Partners, a private equity partnership focused on media and entertainment content. Following his interview onstage at this week's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, he spoke with us about his much-discussed investment in Forbes and how he hopes that technology will liberate entertainment.
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When financially contributing to charitable organizations, the investment product investors turn to most is a donor advised or charitable gift fund.
Source: http://www.millionairecorner.com/article/october-17-2012-fact-day
Christina Galitsky is Technology Review's 2006 Humanitarian of the Year and one of this year's TR35. The Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist employs her training in chemical engineering to find solutions to environmental problems in the U.S. and abroad--particularly in poor countries such as Sudan and Bangladesh. She spoke to us recently about how seeing her innovations in action inspires her and what kinds of problems she hopes to work on in the future.
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The "quadruple witching" hour -- when index futures, index options, equity options and security futures expire simultaneously -- is traditionally a time of higher trading volumes and investors decide what to do next. But if the low trading volumes so far this week are any indication, the next quadruple witching hour, scheduled Friday, will likely pass with barely a bump.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Twenty-two percent of investors with a net worth of $25 million or more (not including primary residence) donated more than $100,000 to charity in the last year.
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I'll admit it right off the bat: I'm an investment idiot. Business culture and the financial universe vex me, and I'd likely struggle to tell you the difference between a hedge fund and a garden hedge.Continue reading Trading futures in film blockbusters? Students can bet on it
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The IRS will stop mailing out paper forms and instructions for annual income tax returns as more people file their taxes online.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Financial planners say it. Money managers say it. Pundits and gurus say it. Without a nice chunk of equities in our portfolio, we are told, inflation will ravage our net worth, and we may not have anything left for our very old age.
That's why some experts have even recommended that retirees or near-retirees hold 60% or more of their assets in stocks -- terrible advice, and it destroyed many people's finances and peace of mind during the crash a couple of years ago.
The market has come back since then -- without the participation of those who sold at the bottom in despair -- so maybe some advisors believe it was sound thinking after all.
But academic research, old and new, completely flies in the face of this conventional "wisdom." It establishes clearly that stocks are not a very good hedge at all against inflation, particularly high inflation. Even Stocks for the Long Run himself, Jeremy Siegel, acknowledges that.
"Historically, that's been the case," said John Tatom, a finance professor at Indiana State University." I claim that's one of the most well-established tenets in financial economics."
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In a 2011 paper, Tatom wrote: "There is a strong negative correlation between inflation and real and nominal stock prices. Contrary to opinion, equities are not a good hedge against inflation."
Some new research by three noted experts on asset prices confirms this. Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of the London Business School have one of the world's deepest databases on the performance of stocks, bonds, bills, and currencies, as well as inflation. It covers 19 different markets and goes all the way back to 1900.
In an article in the 2012 Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook, they found that during periods of "marked" inflation, equities easily outperform bonds, probably the worst investment to own during inflationary episodes. Yet equities gave a real return of -12% during those periods, while bonds lost 23.2%. Double ouch.
"When inflation has been moderate and stable,...equities have performed relatively well," the three professors concluded. "When there has been a leap in inflation, equities have performed less well in real terms. These sharp jumps in inflation are dangerous for investors."
"High inflation reduces equity values," they summed up.
Such as? "In periods of high and increasing inflation, gold and commodities are definitely something you want in your portfolio," said Mark Johannessen, managing director of Harris SBSB in McLean, Va., and former president of the Financial Planning Association.
Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton's research backs him up. "Gold is the only asset that does not have its real value reduced by inflation," they write. "Gold has on average been resistant to the impact of inflation. However, investment in gold has generated volatile price fluctuations...There have been long periods when the gold investor was 'underwater' in real terms."
Not for the last decade, of course, when gold rose more than sevenfold before stalling below $1,900 per ounce. But the researchers are talking about the very long run.
Another good hedge: housing. Don't everyone all groan at once. According to Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton, "real house-price changes ... seem relatively insensitive to inflation ... Housing has provided a long-term capital appreciation that is similar in magnitude to gold."
Unfortunately, U.S. housing has produced the weakest returns of major markets over the last century, so if you'd like to hedge against inflation with your home, pack up and move to Australia.
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) may be a decent substitute, but there aren't as much data on their performance over many, many years -- and they've had a big run.
Finally, there are TIPs (Treasury inflation-protected securities), inflation-linked bonds issued by the US and other governments. Smart people like David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, recommend them for individual investors as good protection against inflation. But they're very expensive now.
So, what should you do? I'd take some profits in your stock and bond holdings and buy small positions (maybe 5% of your portfolio each) in gold, commodities, REITs, and TIPs ETFs, preferably when they've sold off a bit, too.
Then, I'd keep 40% to 50% in stock, 20% to 30% in bonds, and another 10% in cash. That way, you'll have some protection against inflation, deflation, and just normal life.
And if your financial advisor tells you to buy more stock to keep from outliving your money, tell him or her that in the long run, we're all dead.
Howard R. Gold is editor at large for MoneyShow.com and columnist for MarketWatch. You can follow him on Twitter @howardrgold and read why Republicans need to stop pining for a white knight at The Independent.
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