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…
Is day trading your dream job? A study from the University of San Paulo Brazil by Fernando Chague, Rodrigo De-Losso, and Bruno Giovannettisays that the vast majority of day traders lose money in the equity markets. Some of the most popular finance websites out there promote the idea that day trading 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…