The 10 Commandments of the White Coat Investor
This post gives you ten steps that, if followed, will guarantee financial success and independence.
This post gives you ten steps that, if followed, will guarantee financial success and independence.
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Larry Keller, an insurance agent who frequents the blog, and I co-wrote an article recently in the American Academy of Dermatology publication aimed at residents and fellows. It is in no way dermatol...
Disclosure: I have no financial relationship with the authors of Doctors Eyes Only or with their financial advisory firm. But I was sent a free copy of the book. Doctor's Eyes Only is a 9 inch, 217...
Most variable annuities are too expensive for their benefits. Vanguard, however, offers very inexpensive ones. Most doctors still shouldn't use one though.
I'm pretty hard on financial advisors on this site. That's because most of them are sharks, or at best, uneducated salesmen. My best estimate is that you shouldn't take advice from 90-95% of those m...
Financial conflicts of interest are omnipresent, especially when it comes to financial advice. There are a number of finance-related tasks that need to be done to manage your finances, and there are...
It is rare that I check out a book at the library and then end up wishing I'd bought it so I could keep a copy for future reference. Such is the case with The Truth About Buying Annuities by Steve We...
Congratulations! You've made it to the far end of a very long pipeline. You've hit the light at the end of the tunnel, and discovered it wasn't a train there waiting for you. This is an exciting ti...
Disclosure: This is part 2/2 of an interview I did with Michael Relvas, CFP® who sells insurance for a living and pays for advertising space on this blog. Although I have an obvious financial confli...
Disclosure: Michael Relvas, the owner of MR Insurance Consultants is a paid advertiser on this blog. This post is a loose transcript of an interview I had with him recently. Although this isn't a "...
As a general rule, annuities are an inferior investment vehicle. You ought to have a really good reason before you purchase one (and the usual one used to market these to physicians, tax avoidance, i...
Variable annuities (VA) are an insurance product that is best described as a mutual fund wrapped in an insurance wrapper and covered with fees. They have several advantages over mutual funds (in a fu...
Larry Keller sent me an email explaining a deal that may benefit a few of my readers. This month the AMA is sending out mailers for a disability insurance policy offered through MetLife that doesn't...
Variable life insurance became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of strong stock market performance. Cash-value life insurance buyers and sellers wanted to "get a piece of that," especially...