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While All Medicare Supplement Plans are the Same, the Price You'll Pay is Not
By Gavin Magor On September 20, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Weiss Ratings Advises Consumers to Shop Around When it comes to your retirement health care, combining Medicare Parts A and B with Medicare Supplemental Insurance is one of the best choices you...
What’s Behind the Banking Industry’s Disappearing Act?
By Gavin Magor On September 20, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Banking may be the single-most important industry for any economy. Without strong, liquid, loan-making banks, capital flows would slow dramatically and the economy would grind to a halt. That’s...
Will China Play this “Trump Card” in Trade War?
By Mike Larson On September 19, 201807:55 AM Eastern
President Trump upped the ante in the U.S.-China trade war this week, vowing to slap new tariffs on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods. The 10% levy will start September 24. Depending on how...
Colorado Gold Rush
By Sean Brodrick On September 18, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I was in Colorado recently, and all around me were reminders that I was in a state with a rich history of minerals — natural gas, silver, and especially gold. And it holds lessons for today’s...
This One Chart Shows You All You Need to Know About Gold
By Sean Brodrick On September 17, 201807:55 AM Eastern
There's an old Doors song that's particularly appropriate to the gold market right now. Jim Morrison sings: "I've been down so very damn long/ That it looks like up to me." I'm looking at gold...
The Retirement Tug-of-War: Spending Today vs. Saving for the Future
By Tony Sagami On September 14, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I get it. It's a lot more fun to spend money than to save it. I often find myself daydreaming about a convertible sports car, a lake house, business-class airline seats and five-star hotels. But...
Danger! Here's a trio of ETFs you should avoid!
By Gavin Magor On September 13, 201807:55 AM Eastern
About 1,756 ETFs trade in the U.S. right now. Our Weiss Ratings ETF Screener, and our letter-grade ranking system, can help you see which to buy and which to cross the street to avoid. ...
U.S. vs. the World: A Deeper Stock Market Dive
By Mike Larson On September 12, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Earlier this week, I wrote about the large divergence between the performance of U.S. stocks and stocks abroad. But I’m not sure I was truly able to convey how unusual and unprecedented the recent...
3 Life Insurers Whose Ratings Should Give You Pause
By Gavin Magor On September 11, 201804:30 PM Eastern
Back on Aug. 30, we shared our list of top-ranked life insurance companies — the ones that earned our highest Weiss Ratings. The goal? To point you toward strong insurers you can be confident...
Credit markets, foreign stocks and other markets all warn of more turbulence here at home. It's time to play things safe!
By Mike Larson On September 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Last month, I headed out west to speak with investors like you at the San Francisco MoneyShow. Next week I’m heading north of the border to talk to more at the Toronto MoneyShow. But regardless...
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Dr. Weiss is the founder of Weiss Ratings, the nation’s leading provider of 100% independent grades on stocks, mutual funds and financial institutions, as well as the world’s only ratings agency that grades cryptocurrencies. He founded his company in 1971, and thanks largely to his strict independence, has established a 50-year record of accuracy. Forbes called him “Mr. Independence.” The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that his insurance company ratings outperformed those of A.M. Best, S&P and Moody’s by at least three to one. And The Wall Street Journal reported that investors using the Weiss stock ratings could have made more money than those following the grades issued by Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Standard & Poor’s and every other firm reviewed.