By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 21,2012
We are the 81- and 83-year-old seniors (we travel and live together) who you advised to take the $28,000 cash value from two life insurance policies and invest it in dividend utility stocks.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 20,2012
The Federal New York Mint is selling 1-pound bags of silver-clad Buffalo nickels of various dates for $49, which includes a free stone arrowhead with each order. If there are approximately 45 to 50 nickels per pound (my guess), and if silver-clad Buffalo nickels are worth an average of 75 cents each, about $35 per bag, then this sounds like a great investment.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 17,2012
I just finished reading "Why I Left Goldman Sachs," a revealing expose written by Greg Smith, a 12-year veteran.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 14,2012
My pharmacist son-in-law likes to research small, unknown stocks that trade below $10 a share and invest in a few hundred shares of each. He has had a few big wins, but over the past decade I think his many small losses have used up most of his big gains.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 11,2012
We have an insurance agent who sold us a Mercury General automobile insurance policy and told us if we also purchased our homeowners policy from Mercury that we could get a big reduction in our rates.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 7,2012
I work for Social Security and have their Thrift Savings Plan. I would like to transfer some of my money from the very conservative and guaranteed G Fund that just pays about 2.2 percent to the F Fund that pays 4.28 percent but isn't guaranteed even though the money is in bonds.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 4,2012
Our broker wants us to buy 300 American Express for our growth and income portfolio. Please advise.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: December 3,2012
I asked my broker about a good inflation hedge, and he pushed us to invest $25,000 in American Century Global Gold Fund. My wife and I are very concerned about inflation when we both retire in nine years at age 67. We have a $141,000 portfolio of income/growth stocks you recommended in the past, and we reinvest all the dividends as you recommended.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: November 21,2012
I want to invest about $50,000 in gold or silver or gold bullion or coins as an inflation hedge. Then, 21 years from now, when I'm 67, I'll retire and then sell the gold or silver and invest the profits in stocks and bonds that pay good income.
By Malcolm Berko
Published: November 20,2012
I'm a married, 37-year-old, self-employed plumber with three children and have barely managed to keep my head above water these past few years. Because I'm a conservative investor, the broker for my small pension plan wants me to buy $5,000 of the Goldman Sachs Growth & Income Fund, which is up over 12 percent for this year.
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