Bill Cara

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The seriousness of Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services

August 29, 2022 I am authoring a new book about the stock market. It will be published this year. It’s because capital markets have become downstream to the financial services industry culture, which is killing independent investment and making the bankers and their closest associates wealthier. Agents in financial services

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What is a Financial Advisor?

June 10, 2022 Although we read about Financial Advisors all the time, my question is not as simple as simply referring to someone who is licensed as a Financial Advisor, like me for instance. Financial advice could be, say, should you restructure your debts? or should you afford to buy

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Why billcara.com does not provide financial advice to the public

2022.01.29 I am a registered financial advisor who also writes a public blog at billcara.com, which I do for purposes of education and information. If anybody who invests wishes to participate in the Comments section using a nickname, they can do so if they are respectful of the education and

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Good and bad advice to your financial advisor

2022-01-27 Both points that are made today in the ETF Insider report at FinancialAdvisorIQ.com have been discussed by me repeatedly here in the blog and coincidentally in my upcoming book “120 Lessons in Capital Markets”. Welcome to this week’s ETF Insider. We’re looking at two tools in advisors’ ETF portfolio

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Educating clients and readers on the Metaverse

January 18, 2022 Today at a client’s request, I gave a lot of thought to his negative opinion of crypto and so I wrote a bit about it earlier today in the blog. But, with market prices down at a time that I see investing in crypto is an opportunity,

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The benefits of communicating directly with investee companies

When we invest risk capital in young enterprises, it’s important to read all the corporate news releases, financial summaries, and MD&A filings that time permits. If we don’t have the time, we shouldn’t be invested. In my case, I relish the opportunity to meet face to face the CEOs of

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European regulators fine several banks US$390 million for G10 currency manipulation

December 5, 2021, 10:57 am   This article carried by the Wall St Journal this week ought to infuriate every independent investor. https://sports.yahoo.com/eu-fines-barclays-rbs-hsbc-104808164.html To summarize: Barclays, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and NatWest were fined 344 million euros (US$390 million) for foreign exchange market rigging. UBS avoided a 94 million euro (US$107

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