Mike Piper, creator of the popular Oblivious Investor blog, has just published his latest book — his 7th — called Can I Retire? It is a compact 99 pages, but focuses on two big issues. First, how much we’ll really need in retirement. Second, the complexities of managing our retirement savings once we actually stop [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Can I Retire? Mike Piper, the Oblivious Investor, Tries to Help You Find the Answer
Posted in Retirement, tagged Mike Piper, Oblivious Investor, Retirement Investing, Taxes on November 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Retirement Savings Up, Some Worry Not Enough Stock Investing by Younger Workers
Posted in Retirement, tagged 401k, balance funds, Deep Pockets Blog, EBRI, ICI, Mark Miller, Stock, Target Date Funds on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is out with its annual review of the nation’s 401(k)s and gives us something to be thankful for: a number of positive trends in the nation’s greatest trove of personal savings. (Social Security, that’s another story.)
How Much Money Do You Need to Retire?
Posted in Income Investing, Retirement, tagged Dividend Stocks, Income Investing, investing for retirement, retirement, retirement savings, SeekingAlpha on November 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I came across a very highly commented article on SeekingAlpha today called With The Right Dividend Stocks, How Much Do You Really Need to Retire? The focus of this article is to ask whether you can get away with a smaller portfolio value and still retire comfortably if you invest in stocks that have high [...]
Burton Malkiel Says Buy and Hold is Alive and Well, and it Works
Posted in Investors, Long-term investing, Low Cost Investing, Rebalancing, Regular Investing, tagged A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel, buy and hold, Continuous investing, diversification, portfolio investing, rebalancing, VBMFX, VDMIX, VEIEX, VGSIX, VTSMX on November 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Burton G. Malkiel, the Princeton professor who brought Efficient Market Theory to the mass market in his classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street has taken up the defense of buy and hold investing, and the idea of diversification more broadly. Ever since the trauma of 2008 when so many global asset classes moved down [...]
Retail Investor Sentiment Plummets
Posted in Investors, Markets, Volatility, tagged American Association of Individual Investors, GM, GM IPO, Investor Sentiment, VIX, volatility, Zero Hedge on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Investor sentiment is zig zagging faster than Michael Vick outfoxing the Redskin’s defense.
Carl Richards on Conquering Investing Mistakes and Learning to Talk About Money
Posted in Behavioral Finance, Personalization, tagged AAPL, Behavioral Finance, Behaviorgap, Carl Richards, Jack Bogle, Prasada Capital, Prasada Capital Management on November 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Carl Richards has a few thoughts on how we might get around some of our own bad money habits, and he shared them in the video discussion below. A student of behavioral finance, Richards combines that interest with the practical experience of working as a financial advisor in Park City, Utah, where he sees plenty [...]
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