Taking Stock: Parents should save for retirement, not children's college Published: Sun, May 27, 2012 Malcolm Berko: It's a daunting task to invest for a child's college costs. You have a 12-year time frame until the kids are college ready, which isn't enough time for the magic of compounding to work. Read More

Berko: 'Am i on the right track? Updated: Sat, May 19, 2012 Investor wonders if his investment strategy will be successful. Read More

Taking Stock: Value of Kinkade's art to stay in beholder's eye Published: Sun, May 13, 2012 Malcolm Berko: Because Thomas Kinkade's art is highly commercialized and many pieces unoriginally, the art world doesn't prize it. People bought his works because it appealed to them. Keep them hanging where they've been for 20 years, continue to enjoy their beauty, then pass them in your will to an appreciative,... Read More

Savings Bonds have become dauntingly cumbersome Published: Sun, May 6, 2012 The purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds officially morphed into an “all electronic” platform. And what a bloody, bureaucratic mess it is. It's a bear to navigate the new system and most grandparents, who purchase 80 percent of these bonds, will never get it. So we can wave goodbye to our U.S. Savings Bond program. Read More

Malcolm Berko: Baseball memorabilia collection may not meet standards Published: Sun, Apr 29, 2012 Malcolm Berko: Collection may not meet standards Read More

Taking Stock: Facebook's value to earnings is lacking Published: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 Malcolm Berko: Facebook, Groupon, Yelp, Zynga, etc. are examples of the endemic failure of capitalism in which values have little relationship to earnings. Investors are caught up in an evangelical greed that disses the time-honored formula of commonly accepted accounting standards. Read More

Taking Stock: Investing in gold can be a two-sided coin Published: Sun, Mar 25, 2012 Malcolm Berko: If you must purchase gold, consider SPDR GOLD TRUST (GLD-$161), an exchange traded fund trading on the NYSE. GLD owns $71.2 billion of gold bullion, so the market value of this trust will change daily according to the price of gold. Read More

GM still not recommended, despite record profits Updated: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 Dear Mr. Berko: Back in 2010, you told me not to buy 200 shares of General Motors at the initial offering price. And I didn't, even though it went higher in price. I now have $100,000 to invest in a growth portfolio that I hope can produce some modest dividend income. At my age, this money will have to do well... Read More

Taking Stock: Fool, his money parted in loan to relative Published: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 Malcolm Berko: Family members are the worst folks in the world to lend money to, especially daughters, cousins, aunts, uncles, sons, second cousins, nieces, nephews and in-laws of all stripes, though not necessarily in that order. Read More