Recently I heard someone cite the old expression, “a penny saved is a penny earned.” It's hard to argue with the logic of this straightforward idea. But, as you think through more involved financial questions, I think you'll want to be careful with simple rules of thumb. Below I will address four [...]
On average
Should you invest in the stock market? The answer to this question seems fairly obvious: Over the past ninety years, stocks have returned, on average, 10 percent per year, far outpacing bonds (about 5 percent) and cash (less than 3 percent). So, why am I asking if you should invest in stocks? The [...]
Numbers worth your attention
A while back, I remember speaking with an industry colleague about a company that had been in the news. He told me that he liked the company's stock and that, in fact, he had bought it for the mutual fund that he managed. Then he added, parenthetically, “I owned it, then I sold it, then I bought it [...]
Drawing the shades
Some years ago, in response to a reporter's question about user privacy, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, made the following statement: “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.” In his Congressional testimony this week, [...]
Financial planning field guide
Oftentimes folks ask me what their financial plan should look like. It turns out that this question touches on a little bit of a religious debate within the investment community. For that reason, I thought I would explain the various viewpoints and then share the approach that I think works [...]
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