Today we’re gonna look at the fun stuff. What, exactly, can we use to build and keep our wealth. I’m going to give you three portfolios each using the tools (funds) we discussed last time. First will be exactly what I tell my 20-year-old to do. She couldn’t care less about investing. With this simple… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part V: Keeping It Simple, Considerations and Tools
Simple is good. Simple is easier. Simple is more profitable. What I’m going to share with you in these next couple of articles is the soul of simplicity. With it you’ll learn all you need to know to produce better investment results than 80% of the professionals and active amateurs out there. It will take… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part IV: The Big Ugly Event, Deflation and a Bit on Inflation
So far we’ve seen that the stock market is a wonderful wealth building tool that goes relentlessly up. Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX) is the only tool we need to access it. But it is extremely volatile, crashes routinely and most people lose money due to their psychological tendencies. Still, if we toughen up,… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part III: Most People Lose Money in the Market
So, here we have this wonderful wealth building tool that relentlessly marches upward but—and this is a major but—boy howdy it’s a wild and unsettling ride. In Part I & Part II I presented to you a very rosy view of the stock market and its wealth building potential. Everything I wrote is true. But,… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part II: The Market Always Goes Up
On what was later to be called Black Monday, in 1987, at the end of a very busy day I called my broker. Remember now, this was when we had brokers and before cell phones, personal computers, the internet and online trading. “Hi Bob,” I said cheerfully. “How’s it going.” There was a long silent… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part I: There’s a Major Market Crash Coming!!!! and Dr. Lo Can’t Save You.
I’m feeling testy today. I just finished an article in Money Magazine and reading this magazine is, in and of itself, enough to make me testy. This particular piece is an article on page 87 of the March 2012 edition interviewing Dr. Andrew Lo*. Dr. Lo is an economist and finance professor at MIT’s Sloan… [Continue Reading]
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