Bonds are not as bad as they seem I see a lot of social media posts that say bonds are drags on accounts and will only lose value over the next decade or so. It’s true that we have been in a long term bull market for the last 40 Read more…
Wealth Creation in the US Stock Market Movies like the Wolf of Wallstreet glamorize the normal dealings of investment firms and active managers. They paint them as wildly successful entrepreneurs and sometimes even horrible scam artists, or a combination of the two. However, the reality is a bit different. It’s Read more…
There always seems to be a relatively steady stream of IPOs ripe for investors to be taking advantage of possibly huge gains – or huge losses. IPOs are sometimes seen as attractive to investors because they can get in on nearly the ground floor of when a firm open’s its Read more…
Most investors tend to exhibit certain trends when they invest and one of the most observable ones is home country bias. Home country bias is when an investor is over exposed to domestic equities in their investment portfolios. Let’s look at how this happens, the pros, cons, and how to Read more…
These are a many investment and financial services out there. This is a list of various products we use and endorse. Further, we’ll make notes on ones we have heard of which have high reviews and good products as well. Is there a service here that you love but don’t Read more…
Across this website, I’ve urged people to use diversification in their asset allocations, explained why diversification is a free lunch, and why you should have international diversification. But fortunately, there’s a few really easy ways to get all the diversification you could need in your investment portfolio as there’s a Read more…
Many American based investors have a common belief that investing in American stocks gives them enough world diversification because American companies do business overseas. Or even worse, they are using recency bias as an excuse to not invest directly in international stocks – because the American stock market has outperformed Read more…
Asset allocation is perhaps one of the most important concepts investors and financially savvy people can know. You should be asking yourself, two questions. One, how old you are? Two, what your risk tolerance is? And you should be asking yourself these questions when you first create a portfolio for Read more…