About This Blog

This blog is dedicated to spreading the idea that investment success is based upon stubbornly following a few (very simple) principles:

1. Diversifying your portfolio,
2. Minimizing costs (such as brokerage commissions, mutual fund expenses, and taxes), and
3. Ignoring all the noise from the financial media about what the stock market does from day to day.

About the Author

I’m a fairly young fellow (27), married, living in St. Louis. Prior to becoming a full-time personal finance writer, I worked as a financial advisor (for Edward Jones) and as a tax accountant for a large real estate company in Chicago. I’m a Missouri Licensed CPA and an Illinois Registered CPA.

I now make a living writing a series of books that’s somewhat akin to Cliffs Notes for personal finance topics.

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Contact Me

You can reach me at mike@obliviousinvestor.com.

A few quick notes before emailing me:

1. I am not currently accepting guest post submissions.
2. I am not currently interested in selling any advertising spots.
3. Please do not ask me to review or promote your website, book, software, service, or other product. All such emails will be marked as spam.

Interview Requests

If you’d like to interview me, I can be reached at mike@obliviousinvestor.com. I’m available to answer questions about retirement planning, building an investment portfolio, or tax planning. My writing has been featured in numerous places across the web and in print, including the following:

• Oblivious Investor was featured in the May 2011 issue of Money Magazine in their article “100 Best Money Moves.”
• Soon after the release of my book Can I Retire?, I was interviewed by Nanette Byrnes for Morningstar. We discussed the book, this blog, and a handful of retirement planning topics.
• I was interviewed by Mary Hunt of Woman’s Day for her article “WD’s Guide to Retirement” that appeared in the May 2011 issue. (In the print edition, the article was published with the title “Can I Retire? The When and How of Making it Happen.”)
• I was interviewed by Kathy M. Kristof’s for her article “Retirement’s 3 Most Urgent Questions” that appeared in the November 2011 issue of AARP The Magazine.
• Forbes writer Rick Ferri featured Oblivious Investor in his article “Meet the Young Bogleheads.”