July 10th, 2011 7:37 PM by Eric Fang
I raed his book: "The lies about money" this afternoon. The author Ric Delman is a financial advisor. And here is some of his opinions about the investment:
1)Past performance(of mutual funds) means nothing.
2)Beat the market is useless. If S&P 500 lost22% in 2002, if you beaten the market of losing 18%, then so what? You still lost money.
3)Investment is for long term. We need a strategy for that.
It's the same for the mortgage industry. And here is my opinion:1)History low rates does not mean anything. There are too many factors affecting the interestrates in the future.
2)We can get the lowerest rate of one day. But we can not gurrantee to get the lowest rate. Nobody knows whether tomorrow's rates are lower or higher.
3)Planning is better than a low rates. Lower monthlymortgage payment is only a small portion of the financial planning.