Archive for June 2013
How Much Does It Cost To Build An Individual Stock Portfolio?
One advantage to building your own individual stock portfolio is the cost can be much cheaper than a portfolio of mutual funds or ETFs. Aside from the initial set-up period, and assuming you don’t trade very often, a portfolio of individual stocks can cost just a fraction of even the cheapest funds on the market.…
Read MorePRISM – An Attack On Data Privacy?
A secret system used by the NSA in the United States, PRISM, is supposedly slurping up all kinds of data from Internet companies like Google, Twitter, Microsoft and others. While there are more questions than answers at this point, one thing is clear, the United States government has significant data snooping and analysis capabilities. The…
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