40 Years After the Stock Market Died
An Independent Financial Advisor's Perspective on the Persistent, Rumored Death of the Stock Market Legend has it, 19thcentury humorist Mark Twain once…
Three times you might want to change your asset allocation
As we approach year-end, it’s looking as if 2018 may deliver negative returns on equity investments. As we covered here, periodic negative…
Using a Lifestyle Reserve To Ride Out Market Storms
You may have noticed, we seem to be at the beginning, end or middle of an especially rocky ride in…
Stop trying to correct for market corrections — revisited
In 2015, I published an extended series of “financial stop-doing” posts, suggesting what investors could STOP doing, if they wanted…
Is there going to be a market correction? And, if yes, then what?
Note: Originally posted in August 2014 and updated in September 2015, we have again updated this Q&A to reflect 2017…
How Evidence-Based Investing Saves Long-Term Wealth: Avoiding the “Big Mistake”
Count on an Evidence-Based Investing Approach to Withstand the Temptation to Cut and Run When the Market is Scary “Buy…
Investing fads: Quack like a duck and you may get plucked
It’s now been nearly a decade since investors have had to face down a bad bear market. Long enough, apparently,…
Another Year’s Worth of Investing Advice (Still a Five-Minute Read)
Around this time last year, I shared some of my favorite excerpts from my 2016 investing advice posts. I published…
Battle of the Brains: Market Portfolio 1, Fancy Hedge Fund 0
Over a decade and after costs, which approach should come out ahead: investing in a simple, S&P 500 index fund,…
Q&A: What do powerful political plays mean to my investment portfolio?
From the Clinton vs. Trump U.S. presidential elections, to the unfolding U.K. Brexit news, to keeping an eye on our…