Category Archives: Investing

The 7 Laws of Investing

James Montier (Behavioral Investing Blog and member of GMO’s asset allocation team) recently listed his thoughts on a set of principles for investing, via a guest post over at The Big Picture. Although the “laws” are different than the Principles … Continue reading

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Always Invest with a Plan

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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Rule-Based Investing Saves the Day

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

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

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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Measuring Success

Ever since my first losing trade, I steadily increased my use of processes for investing. As my knowledge of process development grew, I learned that you can’t measure progress if you don’t have a stable starting point (current state). Measuring … Continue reading

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Fundamental issues with the GM IPO

The GM IPO (General Motors initial public offering) has come and gone, with the stock price settling just above $34 at the end last week. A few of you may have even been able to get your hands on some … Continue reading

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