Tax Advantaged Wealth Building – A simple guide In working towards a goal of building wealth, there’s a few ways you can speed up your path to wealth – earning more through entrepreneurship, building higher valued skills, or taking on more risk with investments are all ways we can build Read more…
Wealth Building is simple, invest early, invest often, invest consistently, and stay the course. The reality with building wealth is incredibly simple – compounding interest and time. If we continue to do invest in index funds and take advantage of tax-free investment options, wealth building is simple! Imagine getting 8% Read more…
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…
Stocks for the long run is almost always a good idea, or is it? It’s generally a good bet that being in stocks will provide inflation beating returns. A lot of papers have studied this phenomenon in the past and concluded that this. For example, Vanguard has looked at Read more…
Vanguard Research This paper by Vanguard seeks to outline and determine if the US market will continue to out preform for the next decade. As we enter 2021, it’s important to guide our future expectations about returns. There are some ways in which we can predict future long term Read more…
ETFs and index funds Exchange traded funds, or ETFs as they are commonly called, are often a great way to track a collection of securities such as stocks. These can often track an underlying index of some type – like how the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK) tracks the FTSE Read more…
FIRE, the goal we should be striving for The goal, in my opinion, that we should be striving for is called FIRE. FIRE stands for financial freedom, retire early. It sounds a lot like what it is, people attempting to save as much as they can in order to gain 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…
The shortest summary of A Random Walk Down Wall Street: TLDR: “Market prices are so efficient that normal investors are better off buying and holding index funds than attempting to buy and sell individual stocks or actively managed funds.” A somewhat longer summary: A random walk is accepting that Read more…