Author Archives: Joel Wenger

Quote of the Day: Jim Sarni

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Joel Wenger

“We are just plagued today with the lack of long-term trends, and it’s because of people reacting to the issues of the day. You get long-term investors trying to anticipate what hedge funds are going to do-and not do-so they … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: Robert Kiyosaki

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Joel Wenger

“A true investor takes a bad investment, and tweaks and manipulates it into a good investment.” – Robert Kiyosaki Remember Safe Investing Principle #10 – “Learn from your mistakes (i.e. losses) ; you’ve already paid for them.” So assuming that … Continue reading →

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Always Invest with a Plan

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Joel Wenger

A good bit of advice from Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture, regarding how to invest during a crisis: The time to look for the emergency aisles and where the exits are located is before takeoff, not after the … Continue reading →

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Oil Price Spikes: Historical Data Point

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Joel Wenger

I have received several questions on the impact of oil price spikes (both personally, via invest-safely.com, and comments on this blog). I do have an opinion, which is based on my limited knowledge of the facts. I am no expert … Continue reading →

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Rule-Based Investing Saves the Day

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Joel Wenger

Right now, the market has been in an uptrend for almost two years. Statistically speaking, the rally is one of the longest uptrends on record. So it is only natural for people to begin questioning “when will we see a … Continue reading →

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Make your kid a millionaire follow-up

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Joel Wenger

In yesterdays article “Make your kid a millionaire“, I mentioned my thoughts on using an average annual return of 8% for projecting future returns. As a follow-up, here is an infographic from the NY Times, entitled “In Investing, It is … Continue reading →

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Make your kid a millionaire

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Joel Wenger

That’s the gist of an article from Paul Katzeff, entitled “Make your Kid into an IRA Millionaire“. The article is basically a great compound interest example.  To summarize, if you start your children saving in an IRA when they are … Continue reading →

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