Mel Lindauer on Income Investing
Yesterday Mel Lindauer, Forbes columnist, book co-author, Boglehead extraordinaire, offered some advice for younger investors. Rocky markets like the one we’ve been bobbing along in are great for the...
View ArticleHow Much Money Do You Need to Retire?
I came across a very highly commented article on SeekingAlpha today called With The Right Dividend Stocks, How Much Do You Really Need to Retire? The focus of this article is to ask whether you can get...
View ArticleManisha Thakor: Women Can Invest Smarter
Women do invest differently from men, says Manisha Thakor. They have some inherent advantages — including a skeptical tendency to ask questions about investment ideas they don’t understand, and a...
View ArticleInvesting Book Review: Jim Otar’s Unveiling the Retirement Myth
This is a guest blog by By Steve Thorpe. (Part two of this review, Steve Thorpe’s compilation of the best advice and insights from Unveiling the Retirement Myth by Jim Otar, will run tomorrow.) For...
View ArticleJim Otar’s Pearls of Wisdom
Guest blog by Steve Thorpe. Yesterday, I posted a review of Unveiling the Retirement Myth: Advanced Retirement Planning based on Market History by Jim C. Otar, a financial advisor, Certified Financial...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Retirement Plans
These days, most of the news about the state of our retirement savings is bad news . But a recent study from Fidelity Investments contained two very good pieces of news. The average 401(k) balance...
View ArticleHow Much Does Your 401(k) Plan Really Cost You?
Ron Lieber at the New York Times recently came out with an article that explores one of the most important problems with 401(k) plans: they can be expensive and plan participants have no idea how much...
View ArticleThe Hidden Risk in Target Date Funds
Lately, Target Date Funds (TDFs) have been the subject of intense scrutiny and criticism, because investors have realized (in many cases, after the fact) that these types of funds can be very volatile....
View ArticleHow Much Do You Need to Save for Retirement?
In the financial advisory business, one of the most pressing and controversial topics is how much money people need to save during their working years in order to provide for long-term retirement...
View ArticleUnderstanding How Fund Performance Comparisons Overstate Returns
May 13, 2014 Every investor has, I hope, read the standard disclaimer on mutual fund and ETF performance documents that ‘past performance does not predict future performance,’ or other text to that...
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