Topics To Consider Before The New Year Begins

• Investment outlook for 2008 from BusinessWeek.

• Review their portfolio asset allocation. An article from the American Association of Individual Investors, The Basic Truths About Asset Allocation, provides helpful hints on portfolio management.
  

• Consider preparing a financial plan in 2008.
  

• S&P reports 40% of consumers will dedicate more of the increase in their 2007 holiday spending to the Internet than to any other channel. This is coupled with the finding that among those polled, 70% planned to do at least a portion of their shopping online. Participants’ responses further revealed that 22% of holiday shopping in 2006 was done online.

• Analog cell phone network being shutdown in 2008. OnStar and some home alarm system could be affected.

• Consumers now spend more on cell phones than land lines in 2007.

• Dividend data from the Wall Street Journal online.

• Art market continues to boom. Has it been a part of your portfolio?
  

• Judicial risk for municipal bonds. Supreme Court to decide the Davis vs. Commonwealth of Kentucky municipal bond case by June 2008.