Can I let you all in on a little stock market secret? This is very privileged information so please cover your screen while you read this so that others will not see our little secret. Ok, ready - here it comes...........The stock market is volatile and can go up and down a lot!![ad#tdg-embedded] Seriously though, the stock market does only two things on any given day. It either goes up, or it goes down. Our job as investors is to determine how to deal with it and not make stupid …
The Tyranny of Investment Fees
The wonderful magic of compounding returns that is reflected in the long-term productivity of American business, then, is translated into equally wonderful returns in the stock market. But those returns are overwhelmed by the powerful tyranny of compounding the costs of investing. - Bogle (The Little Book of Common Sense Investing) There is such an intense focus on what returns an investor earns that often one the most important aspects (other than asset allocation) of investing is ignored …
Do Precious Metals Belong in My Portfolio
Although I still have work to do to get my target asset allocation in line, I have been wondering about ways to further enhance my portfolio and did some research on precious metals as an asset class. I was intrigued about it again when leafing through my copy of The Intelligent Asset Allocator and decided it was high time I did a post on it. It is not an asset class that is talked about very often![ad#tdg-embedded] What Precious Metals Are Precious metals is best defined by quoting …
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My Portfolio and Asset Allocation
Although I used to provide my full portfolio on this blog, values and all, I stopped doing it for two simple reasons: privacy and the illusion of a recommendation. First, it felt weird to publish my portfolio value and net worth to the world (not that the world reads this blog!) Second, I got the feeling that by publishing my portfolio a small number of people were considering it as a buy recommendation and were in fact copying it. That was wrong! Although I believe strongly in my investing …
Future Stock Market Returns
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain I love this quote because it really sums up the risks of speculating in the stock market. At the end of the day, I don't think there is any way to accurately predict what the stock market is going to return over the next X number of years.[ad#tdg-embedded] However, the investment industry …
Rounded Out My Portfolio with Some New ETFs
My primary objective is to conserve investment capital through the selection of a sound and diversified portfolio. The underlying message here is that I strive to balance risk to achieve maximum reward by selecting a wide variety of different assets. In addition to my individual dividend stock holdings I use a variety of index funds to ensure I am invested across investment styles and assets. I recently added to my index fund holdings to achieve this goal.[ad#tdg-embedded] The purpose for …
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