Reoccurring costs can be hidden expenses every month which make us poorer Do you have a buddy who has tons of subscriptions? He pays for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and has a rock gym membership and Amazon prime? All of those could easily cost the guy $120 or more per month! 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…
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…
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…
Sometimes when we make investment decisions, we think we should try and predict the future. We want the best stock returns for a variety of reasons from things like retiring early or using the funds to purchase a new car. And if we are trying to predict the future, we’ll Read more…