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It has been proven that most active investors who struggle to out-perform the market will find that over time, their machinations and efforts were all for naught. A recent study has proven that these efforts won’t help one’s happiness either. On this Thanksgiving weekend, we present a few studies that address the connection between happiness [...]
As a young child I had an ongoing battle with my mother over eating my peas. It may have related to the fact that the peas she served came from the Del Monte can, pale and overcooked, or possibly from the ubiquitous childhood disdain for anything green. Whatever the reason, the peas had to be [...]
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin During Soviet era communism, citizen behavior was managed through a monopoly on information. It was the duty of the KGB to know all they could about information flow and to tightly control it. When Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Communist party, he recognized [...]
Here is a shocking fact: Asset allocation, the idea of spreading one’s money into different buckets or asset classes, accounts for 90% of a portfolio’s return over time. This leaves a paltry 10% of performance tied to security selection and market timing. Think of how radical this fact actually is. When you turn on CNBC or [...]
In competitive pursuits, there are established and transparent measurement systems to determine not just performance but how performance is achieved. In professional sports, a variety of statistics are used to compare individual and team performance. Everyone from team managers to owners to bookies use these common statistics. And because the statistics don’t like, there is [...]
A man having a religious crisis of faith initially spoke the famous words of this blogs subject line. He was acknowledging that with tough decisions, there is a continuum, not a simple yes or no answer. You can have conviction, but circumstances come along that challenge it’s depth. Similarly with such market volatility in recent [...]
Like a volcano, markets go through phases: they do very little and then suddenly they spit fiery lava. With new problems being introduced each day, be it Greek debt or the survival of the Euro, the markets are trying to figure out what stuff is worth. Volatility is up. And the “forecasters” are out in droves [...]
On May 6th of last week, the markets shocked the world with a never-seen-before event – a 1000-point drop in a mere sixteen short minutes. During those brief moments and the hours following, financial programs on TV and radio featured pundits whose heads were spinning while seeking to comprehend how 10% of the market’s value [...]
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 [...]
Below is a great check list for retirement planning that came my way courtesy of TIME magazine worth sharing as we take a second (or third) look at our retirement portfolio and wonder if it is on the right track to meet our retirement dreams. Retirement Planning Rethink — and Restore — Your Retirement Dreams Get [...]
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