Dear Mr. Berko: This year, I plan to put $6,500 in my individual retirement account into the American Funds Global Balanced Fund, which my stockbroker says will outperform the stock market in the coming decade. I am 60 and intend ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: I’ve been given the opportunity to invest in Treasure Investments Corp. by CEO Mark Russo. The investment consists of buying stock at 20 cents a share with a minimum investment of $25,000. The goal is to raise ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: In March 2013, I bought 500 shares of Nektar Therapeutics at $12. In March of this year, it traded at $24, but now it trades around $19. Should I sell this stock or continue to hold and ...

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Editor’s Note: The final three paragraphs of this installment of Malcolm Berko’s column are new, the previous version of this column contained errors. Dear Mr. Berko: I’m a married 43-year-old systems engineer earning $67,000 a year, and my spouse works ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I am 46 and have $14,000 to invest in my very conservative individual retirement account. I have a choice between General Mills and Bank of America. Which should I buy? – LW, Kankakee, Ill. DEAR LW: Never ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I have been reading your column for 30 years and want to comment before asking a question. When you criticize the American consumers, as you did when at The Chicago Forum on Global Cities, it sounds like ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: Please settle an argument that I have with a stockbroker who is a staunch Democrat. He insists that stocks do much better under a Democratic president than a Republican president. How could that be true? And he ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I just retired at age 67, and my certified public accountant, who is a friend, insists that I hire a money manager to run my $680,000 individual retirement account. Do you have any idea how difficult it ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I have a five-year horizon and $15,000 to $20,000 of new money to invest. My broker has suggested buying 100 shares each of three specialty chemical companies, and I would like your opinions of them. They are ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: Last May, Congress stopped the National Security Agency from collecting and storing our personal and business calls on their servers. Our broker says the National Security Agency will require American Telephone to maintain all this information on ...

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