By Dr. James M. Dahle, WCI Founder This is part of an ongoing series evaluating the merits of popular static asset allocation portfolios. I had heard vaguely of this portfolio, and then had it recomme...
I've learned a few things recently as a result of becoming an unintentional landlord. After trying to sell my previous home for well over a year without success, I turned it into a rental property. ...
I think I live in the scam capital of the world. It seems not a month goes by that some local pyramid scheme isn't uncovered. There are even billboards on the freeway teaching residents how to avoid...
Peer to peer lending as an investment is new, and there isn't much data out there. To make things worse, the companies occasionally tweak their methods for rating loans, their methods to decid...
Jeremy Grantham's firm GMO makes a monthly "7-year Forecast" which has been reasonably accurate over the years. It is primarily valuation based. For example, here's the most recent one: These are es...
Don’t make these seven common mistakes that cause doctors to fall short in reaching financial success.
Stanley and Danko, in their classic The Millionaire Next Door, discussed a rule of thumb to determine if you were an average accumulator of wealth, an under-accumulator of wealth, or a prodigious accu...
[FOUNDER'S NOTE: Reading Bill Bernstein's 4 Pillars of Investing changed my financial life. I've since followed his writings and career and even met him at a Bogleheads Convention. He agreed to write...
The best way to manage individual stock (or bond) risk is to have a diversified portfolio. Here are the five biggest errors I see in portfolios with respect to diversification and how to solve them.
How much money will you need to retire? Here are 9 reasons it may be a lot less money than you think.
Remember when you were a second year medical student studying for the USMLE? There was a company out there that made a series of books entitled "High Yield _____________". There was High-yield Embry...
This is another in my series of reviews on popular fixed asset allocation portfolios. Bill Schultheis is well known to many of you as the author of The Coffee House Investor, perhaps the most readable...
By Dr. Jim Dahle, WCI Founder Each investor ought to develop his own fixed asset allocation and stick with it, rebalancing to maintain appropriate risk levels. It is valuable to see different portfoli...
I've said "Stay the course" a thousand times, and I meant it every time. It doesn't matter if stocks are up or down, stay the course!
Gold! Gold! Gold! It seems you can't look anywhere these days without someone talking about gold and how you should melt down your jewelry and sell it or buy some to protect your portfolio. Many w...