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There Are No Stock-Picking Geniuses
I shake my head when someone writes about managed funds or picking individual stocks as a preferred way of investing. For every lucky home run investor or fund manager genius of the day, there is a...
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Boosting Our Gold Holdings
We made a small adjustment in allocation of assets in our taxable investment accounts. I can’t say I feel great about it but that’s OK. Mrs. ToughMoneyLove has been closely following gold prices and...
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Anticipating a Second Market Collapse
The doomsday investors and prognosticators are out in full force. They are predicting another collapse of the markets. I am concerned, of course, as I am in the retirement home stretch. There are...
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Bank of America Withdrawal and Investment Simplification
Yesterday and today I continued the process of disengaging from our relationship with Bank of America. Several months ago we opened a new primary checking account at a community bank paying 3.85%...
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Re-thinking Asset Allocation and Correlation
A bedrock principle of asset allocation for the long term investor is asset correlation. The theory is that a properly allocated portfolio includes investments in different asset categories or classes...
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Is a Crash Coming?
I can’t add much to a recent article from the Wall Street Journal. It contains a list of ten reasons why the market may due for another a big drop. They are reasons based on logic, not hysteria. I am...
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Visualizing a Lost Decade
Would you like to see an ugly picture of long term investing in the last decade? Read on. The chart below plots the nominal and real (after inflation) returns of the S&P 500, assuming that you...
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