I read Dr. William Bernstein's Kindle eBook The Ages of the Investor again. This book is worth reading and re-reading a few times. One nugget I learned from this book that I haven't seen emphasized quite enough in other books is the difference [...]
2013: Great For Investments, Bad For Investing
This will be the last post in 2013. So far this year this blog published 134 articles and received 1,250 comments (350 of which were my replies to readers' comments). I didn't track the total hours I spent on producing these 134 articles and 350 [...]
Tax Efficiency: Relative or Absolute?
Tax efficiency becomes a factor when you have investments in regular taxable accounts (versus a tax advantaged accounts such as a 401k or IRAs). Because you have to pay taxes on interest, dividends, and realized gains, an investment that loses less [...]
Stocks or Bonds in Roth?
[This is a guest post from Bogleheads investment forum participant Bob’s not my name.] A number of spurious arguments are made for holding riskier assets in your Roth IRA as opposed to a Traditional IRA. Let’s examine them. For simplicity, we’ll [...]
When Will Your Index Fund Buy Facebook Stock?
Facebook will have an IPO soon. If you invest through mutual funds, will those mutual funds buy Facebook stock after the IPO? If so, when will they buy it? People ask this question because either they worry their mutual funds will buy into a bubble [...]
Book Review: The Little Book That Builds Wealth
Ah, another little book. I read and reviewed several of them already. Some are good; some not so. The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt (*) The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets by Peter Schiff (***) The Little Book [...]
