From the monthly archives:
I hope you’re all enjoying your respective weekends. I’ve got a fairly diverse list of noteworthy personal finance articles this week. Enjoy! Investing Amateur Asset Allocator provides us with a healthy mindset for thinking about investing losses. Mr. Cheap from Four Pillars has been engaged in peer-to-peer lending for 3 years. He’s learned some lessons [...]
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It’s no secret that minimizing costs is one of the best ways to improve investment returns. So it’s understandable that one question that comes up frequently is “which costs less: ETFs or index funds?” For anybody new to ETFs: Exchange traded funds are simply passively-managed portfolios that track a given index, much like a traditional [...]
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One benefit of Oblivious Investing is that you can take an “I don’t know, and I don’t care” attitude about market swings and short-term market results. It’s quite freeing when compared to investment strategies that put you at the mercy of the month-to-month whims of the investing public. Long-term market returns, however, are another story. [...]
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There. I said it. You’ve probably spent your whole life learning that you have above-average intelligence and above-average work ethic. And, when considering the entire population of people around you, that may very well be true. But if you plan to pick stocks (or do anything else to beat the market), the group that you’re [...]
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Quick admin update: Starting next week, I’m going to be cutting back by 1 post per week. (Instead of the “Monday-Thursday posts with a roundup on Friday” routine that I’ve had since October, the new routine will be “Monday, Wednesday, Friday, with roundup on Saturday.”) Not that I’m getting bored of this blog. Precisely the [...]
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For the most part, financial advisors from banks or “full-service” brokerage firms are paid based on commissions. They’re sales people. Having been one myself, I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss the specifics involved and the conflicts of interest that can arise as a result of such a payment structure. 40% Payout On average, [...]
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