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We offer six investing New Year’s resolutions to help you make 2015 a success.

To close out 2014, we replay some of our favorite guest interviews from the second half of the year including Dave Nadig – ETF.com’s Chief Investment Officer, Dave Mazza – StateStreet’s Head of Research, and Wes Gray – Executive Managing Member at Alpha Architect.

We recap the financial markets in 2014 and tell you what we’ll be watching for in 2015. John Hyland, Chief Investment Officer at United States Commodity Funds, also spotlights the United States Oil ETF (USO) and offers his perspective on the recent decline in the price of oil.

We discuss the basics of investing in emerging markets and examine several emerging market ETFs. Kevin Carter, Founder of Big Tree Capital, spotlights an Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF (ticker EMQQ).

Matt Tucker, Head of Fixed Income Strategy at iShares, offers his perspective on bonds in 2014 and looks ahead to 2015. Nate and Jason also discuss the difficulty in predicting short-term interest rate moves and provide some tips for building your bond portfolio.

Dan Haake, CPA and Partner at Hutchins & Haake LLC, joins us in studio to discuss important year-end tax planning tips.

We explain the basics of growth and value investing. Also, Wes Gray, Executive Managing Member at Alpha Architect, spotlights the ValueShares US Quantitative Value ETF.