List of Asset Classes: Designing Your Portfolio Pt4
Are you a DIY investor designing your own portfolio? Here's a comprehensive list of asset classes to consider for your asset allocation.
Are you a DIY investor designing your own portfolio? Here's a comprehensive list of asset classes to consider for your asset allocation.
Think twice before passing up the tax break of a 401K. Here I quantify the benefits of tax-deferred, tax-free growth to see how much a 401k is really worth.
Use mutual funds to simplify your investing life but don't give away the farm by paying unnecessary loads, fees, or ridiculous expense ratios.
[Editor's Note: This is part 2 in our real estate private placements series. This particular post is a continuation of part 1, also written by Mark Reynolds, a real estate investor who offers privat...
Regular readers know I'm a huge Vanguard fan boy. No organization is perfect, but Vanguard stands alone as a mutually owned mutual fund company that essentially operates at cost for the benefit of th...
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post submitted by Felix Chapovsky, MD, a physiatrist in Pennsylvania. In it he discusses the often misunderstood but important difference between arithmetic means (av...
Doctors often qualify as accredited investors by virtue of their income, but they probably shouldn't. Read more!
[Editor's Note: Many medical journals often publish "Pro/Con articles" especially about controversial topics. In this post, Loy Puckett, MD, and I debate the pros and cons of investing in mutual fun...
Today's Q&A Series is a little different from most, because I'm the one asking the question. I'm also providing the answer, but only because it was handed to me on a silver platter. I like to th...
Larry Keller and I did another article aimed at young dermatologists recently. Like the last one, it's not particularly specific to dermatologists at all. It's fairly basic for a regular reader of t...
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...
Being a good financial advisor is a tough gig. Not only do you have to convince wary investors they should invest with you, but you also have to distinguish yourself from all the quacks and snake oil...
Last time I reviewed a great book, published originally in 2008, called The Gone Fishin' Portfolio by Alexander Green. In this post, I review his proposed portfolio. The Gone Fishin' Portfolio is a f...
I recently read a rather unique, but very good, book aimed at the relatively new investor called The Gone Fishin' Portfolio. In the tradition of the great "Boglehead" books, it discusses how to set u...
Your investment plan needs to take into account that no one can predict the future of the stock market or any other investment for that matter.