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I recently came across an interesting question on the Boglehead forum: If you could only own one fund, what would you own? That question got me thinking about one aspect of investing that doesn’t often get discussed: desire for simplicity. While some investors don’t mind managing a portfolio of ten different funds, other investors would [...]
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Happy Friday, everybody. I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving celebrations yesterday. My favorite articles from this week: Investing Articles Can the Market Make You Rich? from Joe Taxpayer How Framing a Question Can Change Your Answer from Larry Swedroe Are Women Saving and Investing Enough? from Good Financial Cents Other Money-Related Articles What is Your [...]
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Administrative note: There will be no new post tomorrow–taking the day off for Thanksgiving. And on that note, thanks to each of you for the roles you play here (whether buying one of my books, sharing the blog with others, or participating in the discussion). Being able to do this full-time is literally a dream [...]
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What percentage of the stock portion of your portfolio should be invested internationally? Vanguard’s website (in a section only accessible if you’re logged in) contains this statement: “Investing up to 20% of your stock portfolio in international stocks can help you diversify. Between 20% and 40%, your diversification improves, but at a lower rate. And [...]
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Hypotheses cannot be proven. They can only be disproved. As Taleb reminds us, even with hundreds of thousands of white swan sightings and no black swan sightings, it was never possible to prove the statement “all swans are white.” Yet one single sighting of a black swan could (and did) immediately disprove the statement. In [...]
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It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of The Motley Fool. In short, I think investors would be better off if the entire stock-picking newsletter industry just disappeared. That said, this Robert Brokamp fellow who’s been writing guest posts at Get Rich Slowly seems to have his head on straight. Rather than writing articles [...]
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