Working with your Mom, Eight Great Tips

Your Mom! The individual who raised and nurtured you…guided you through the tumultuous process of becoming a beautiful successful adult.  To work for her requires all the skills she’s taught you along the way, and then some, to come back to the nest, ...

How to Make Sure You Don’t Get Madoffed

The $50 billion scam perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is certainly scary, but if you did not have any funds invested with his firm you can learn a valuable lesson from the tragedy.  There are certain precautions you should take, or be sure your advisor ...

Great Company……Some Buffalo Pride and Obama Certified!!!

Introduction Optimistically…With the passing of 2008, so goes our Nation’s economic hardships.  It is a good time to take a look at some companies (while they are cheap) that may benefit from the change in administration in 2009. I do not give recom ...

Collins Advisors Beat Warren Buffet! Take a look at our Three Year Performance History

October, 2006-July, 2009 (Since Inception) S&P500 -31.4% BRK.A -9.7% Collins Advisors, LLC. +4.6% Portfolio Annual S&P -22.69% BRK.A -18.64 Collins Advisors, LLC. -11% Portfolio Year To Date S&P500 +7.20% BRK.A -2.94% Collins Advisors, ...

Money, Love & Partnerships: Tips on how to survive

Society has changed a lot since our parents first started their families. It is wonderful that our society has transformed our relationships, our marriages/partnerships and our ways of parenting. These changes allow a couple to explore personal and p ...

What happened in Greece? Why isn’t it over? Why is it affecting the U.S. economy?

A lot of people have been asking me about the debt crisis in Greece. They hear bits and pieces, but don’t fully understand why it happened, what’s going on now, and why it’s affecting us. So, briefly, here’s the scoop to bring you up t ...

How a Private Share Becomes a Public Stock & Some Tips about Buying a Newly Traded Stock

Nationally and locally, there has been a lot about IPOs, what with the long awaited Facebook IPO, and our very own local Synacor.  Many people I’ve been talking to about these ventures do not really understand the “whys, hows, and wha fors” of ...

529 Plans and College Savings plans

I don’t know if you’ve heard the news but I’m a godmother now! This title comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility. I want to do my part for my little “Emma Christine.”  This got me thinking, and I decided that I really want ...

Social Media Stocks! Should you invest?

Facebook, Path, Pinterest, Groupon, Pandora! We use these social media tools everyday although no one seems sure if they are actually profitable. This year is the year for social media IPOs! Although there is a lot of press around Facebook’s IP ...

The History of the Mutual Fund, the Emergence of the ETF, and Picking the Right Fund for You

  PART I The first mutual fund in the United States was created by the The Boston Personal Property Trust 1893.  This fund was more real estate based and its structure more closely resembled what we think of today as a hedge fund rather than ...