Photo by siamak poorjam on Unsplash    Sometimes we do things that seem minor to us but somehow create a stir in others. So it seems with a couple of, to me, minor adjustments I recently made to the Collins portfolios. If you care, here’s the scoop.   Adding International A couple of weeks ago… [Continue Reading]

I’ve been an investor in the stock market for 50 years. Here’s the one thing that will determine whether the market makes you wealthy or leaves you bleeding on the side of the road: What you do when the market drops. Market drops fall into three broad categories: Corrections, which are drops of ~10% Bear… [Continue Reading]

  Lanju Photografie, Unsplash Recently a friend reached out asking for my take on concerns raised in this article: What Goes Up I hate these kind of requests, probably because every time this sort of hand wringing article appears, people want me to talk them down off the ledge.  Ordinarily, I ignore these requests. Guess… [Continue Reading]

Please Note: If you are outside Europe and the US, please be sure to read thru the comments on the original of this post. They have become a valuable forum for investors from all over the world. Who knew? Certainly not I. This all started when I wrote a series of letters to my daughter… [Continue Reading]

While I touched on it in Part XVII, the differences between ETFs and Mutual Funds is a recurring question here. Perhaps I should have covered it better. Let’s do that now. We’ll use VBTLX and its ETF version, BND, as examples since those were my choices in my most recent move. ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) were… [Continue Reading]

As I have mentioned many times, we don’t discuss secret stuff at Chautauqua. There is no “special sauce” revealed for investing or life not available here on the blog or in my book. But we do kick around ideas and I sometimes explore concepts rattling around in my brain with the exceptional attendees Chautauqua always… [Continue Reading]