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275 days ago, popular 275 days ago
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Some authors argue that a traditional retirement is literally impossible for the Baby Boom generation and generations thereafter. The reasons behind the argument are fairly compelling. What do you think?
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In any industry, it's difficult to maintain a competitive advantage for very long. So why would we expect that a fund manager could maintain one for decades at a time in a hypercompetitive industry?
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Posted by
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277 days ago
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William Bernstein argues that people need to train in order to improve their "financial fitness." By adopting a strategy of annual rebalancing, we can train ourselves to buy low and sell high.
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281 days ago
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Volatility isn't necessarily a bad thing. Whether it's harmful, beneficial, or meaningless depends entirely upon your personal situation.
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282 days ago
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Diversification is an amazing thing: It increases the predictability of your return without decreasing your expected return. That's about as close as you can get to the proverbial "free lunch"!
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282 days ago
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Unfortunately, many investors make the mistake of dealing with mutual funds the same way they deal with individual stocks: They sell them after they've gone down.
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There's been a lot of talk lately about the "behavior gap" (that is, the difference between investor returns and investment returns). Is it real? Or are we only looking at part of the picture?
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289 days ago
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Research indicates that investors who grow up during a period of low market returns will be "unusually cautious investors" for the rest of their lives. I hope not, otherwise we'll have even more problems.
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A chart showing the performance of the original 500 companies in the S&P 500. Some pretty interesting lessons to be drawn.
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As of last week's numbers, our GDP is down 1.1% from the peak (which occurred in Q2 2008). By way of comparison, from 1929 to 1932, real GDP dropped 27%. Let's stop pretending this is anything like the Great Depression.
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296 days ago
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It causes confusion for investors when we lump so many distinct concepts together into the word "risk." (Examples: inflation risk, market risk, volatility risk, credit risk, currency risk, etc) Perhaps we should be more specific when writing.
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I recently read David Chilton's The Wealthy Barber (copyright '98). Throughout the book he assumes 15% rates of return in the stock market. It amazes me that even the "experts" got carried away by the euphoria of the time.
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Posted by
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299 days ago
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The concept of reversion to the mean is essential knowledge for anybody who wants to try to pick mutual funds. In short: Don't expect the "hot" fu[...]
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With a dividend yield of 3%, projected long-term market returns haven't looked this good in almost two decades. And yet, people are scared to invest[...]
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303 days ago
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A quick discussion explaining the pros and cons of a Roth IRA as compared to a 401k.
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