There are so many ways to invest successfully that the most important thing is to just pick something reasonable and stick with it. But it’s key to know which approach to take and why you’re picking that option.
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 decide who th...
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 esti...
[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.
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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 Embryol...
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...
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 portfolios and their pros and cons, so...
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...
I met Allan Roth at a Bogleheads meeting a couple of years ago. He had a spare copy of his book How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street with him and gave it to me. Allan is a fee-only financial advisor...
Are financial advisors worth the cost? Typical advisory fees can literally cost you millions of dollars over a lifetime. Turn the tables and learn to DIY.
Ensure you get the best advice at the fairest price by asking these questions to any financial advisor you're considering hiring.
REITs are a great asset class, but make sure to buy the publicly traded ones, not a private REIT. Here's why you should steer clear of these investments.
Even a plain old taxable account has a lot of tax advantages. Here are 10 reasons not to rule them out.
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