Is your home an investment? Is anyone’s home a good, long-term asset? For a long time, the answer was yes. And real estate is still a good deal for investors, … Read more →

Think what you like about Wall Street (and its sometimes-obscure motivations), you’d be very lucky to buttonhole one of its brightest minds even for a few moments and ask the … Read more →

What’s a safe retirement withdrawal rate? If you’re like most Americans, you probably think that you need $1 million to achieve it. And there’s a reason you think that. Financial … Read more →

One of the overlooked effects of the credit crisis has been the lengths to which otherwise prudent people were pushed to keep their heads above water. Unsurprisingly, a potentially huge … Read more →

Lying has a noble history, hearkening back to the beginning of time itself. By taking a simple jaunt back to the Garden we find God’s booming, “Who ate my apple?” … Read more →

Finally – July 2012 has arrived!  Employees all over America will get the sobering news that there really are fees being siphoned out of their 401(k) accounts and the amounts, … Read more →

While Freud’s 1908 theory of penis envy has been wrought with controversy, financial sciences have clearly demonstrated that when it comes to money management, most men should have a serious … Read more →

Few investors truly understand what it means to have a diversified portfolio. Most believe that owning 20-50 stocks, or a few mutual funds, means that they are diversified. But they … Read more →

New research reveals that investors believe high-price mutual funds can produce investment miracles. Few mutual fund investors would ever equate themselves with the gullible folks that bought Clark Stanley’s snake … Read more →

A new client recently looked at one of our recommended portfolios and was concerned. He wrote: “I understand the idea of spread the assets as broadly as possible to play the … Read more →