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Monthly Archives: April 2010


Retirement Planning Is Essential to Retire Rich

Retirement planning is a subject full of irony: the younger you are when you start investing for it, the more likely it is that you’ll retire with plenty. But when we’re young, we tend to care the least about retirement.  Most people under 40 years old don’t even think much about it. Life has more [...]

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"Nobody knows Nothing"

“Nobody knows nothing” is a statement made by screenwriter William Goldman about the movie business. He meant that even after making movies for over 100 years, no one actually knows exactly how to make a successful movie.  Sometimes sure things bomb.  Sometimes long shots win big. To draw a parallel, we assembled a few articles [...]

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Tips to Guide Your Investing Strategy

Tips to help guide investors on their investing strategy run the gamut from how-to build a low-cost ETF portfolio, to how-to construct the proper asset allocation with diversification suited to your financial needs, to how rebalancing a portfolio can maximize returns. A few other noteworthy tips that surfaced recently are highlighted below.  I hope they [...]

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Do Your Homework To Understand Mutual Funds and Their Fees

The Supreme Court finally examined the problem with mutual funds with regards to their fees. The result – not much protection for the average retirement investor. The Court decided to rule against further legislation and to keep the onus of fee due diligence on investors. You can imagine that the $11 trillion mutual fund industry [...]

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