Lee Eugene Munson and Lorraine Ell create a balanced investment strategy in oil. Published on Seeking Alpha

The energy sector has a role in any portfolio. At Portfolio Asset Management, since the majority of our clients are retired and cash flow oriented, an investment in energy needed to balance appreciation with a stream of income. Our strategy was to combine high yielding, publicly traded LP and LLC, with an integrated oil company, and a raw commodity ETN.
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Lee Eugene Munson on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” January 21, 2009

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Lee Eugene Munson and Lorraine Ell analyze Citigroup. Published on Seeking Alpha

We recently published a report entitled Citigroup: Too Big to Fail or Succeed. It turns out that nothing has changed. Now that we have news of the Smith Barney merger with Morgan Stanley (MS), more information is coming out about how bad it is. More importantly, we want to know if the preferred stock we have been trading, C-P, will be able to stay afloat. We will know more details today on the downsizing program.
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By Lorraine Ell

The joy of travelling with your adult children and their families is a growing trend among retirees. Most of us live scattered across the globe and multi-generational family holidays are increasingly seen as the best way to gather together. Whether you include parents and adult children only or entire families including the grandchildren vacations can add to building a bank of memories. Of course, this all sounds great but what are the realities of multi-generational travel and what do you need to know before embarking on your adventure?

Lee Eugene Munson and Lorraine Ell analyze the value of ETFs. Published on Seeking Alpha

When ETFs came on the scene 15 years ago, they brought a brave new world of efficient markets with low operating expenses and minimal tax liability. While the largest funds like DIA and SPY are designed in the spirit of the original ETFs, to track the large indexes, most of the newer ones do not even come close to this original purpose.

If the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is correct, then only two ETFs are needed at most, a world stock index such as the Vanguard Total World Stock Index (VT) and a bond index like the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND), in a ratio that fits your risk tolerance. Anything more, if we are to be philosophically true to the EMH, tips into the realm of active investing.
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Lee Eugene Munson on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” January 5, 2009

From the CNBC’s Closing Bell
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