“Max out your retirement plans every year” has long been standard advice I’ve given to working adults who want to secure a reliable...

Lynn Hopewell, one of the pioneers of the financial planning profession, once said, “Rules of thumb are for people who want to decide...

(MoneyWatch) Myths are often created because there appears to be some data supporting the idea. One of the myths is that active managers...

(MoneyWatch) Investors seem to be obsessed with investing in growth strategies, whether it’s investing in companies with faster growth of...

MoneyWatch Earlier this year, we saw the results of financial predictions for 2012 and that most didn’t come true. However, there was one...

MoneyWatch We often hear criticism from the financial media and some professional advisors about the use of “bond ladders.” For example,...

MoneyWatch) Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton are well known for their research on stock market returns. Their 2002 book,...

(MoneyWatch) Just a few years ago, during the height of the U.S. financial crisis, I was getting questions from lots of people wondering...

This is an interesting article from MoneyWatch and Larry Swedroe with some great lessons incorporated into it. Steve ——————————————————...

(CBS News) INDIANAPOLIS — A youth basketball team in Indianapolis doesn’t think of its 72-year-old coach as a celebrity, but Jerry...

(MoneyWatch) Among the requirements for achieving your financial goals are: The knowledge needed to develop an investment plan; integrate...

This is a great article from Larry Swedroe about the benefits of a strategy that involves investing in Value Stocks.  It does a good job...

(MoneyWatch) Small-cap growth stocks have been euphemistically called “the black hole of investing.” The reason is that they have...

(MoneyWatch) Financial Advisor magazine highlights a report admonishing advisors who thought diversification would save their clients’...

(MoneyWatch) The argument is pretty simple: Emerging markets are among the most likely to be inefficient, so that’s where active fund...

(MoneyWatch) The argument is pretty simple: Emerging markets are among the most likely to be inefficient, so that’s where active fund...

(MoneyWatch) The quest to find the best money managers leads many investors to look for those with the best research staffs. Two such...

More than a century has passed since Louis Bachelier, in his Ph.D. thesis at the Sorbonne in 1900, wrote: “Past, present, and even...

(MoneyWatch) Active fund managers are always coming up with excuses for why they can’t beat index funds. In recent years, their excuse...

(MoneyWatch) We often hear criticism from the financial media and some professional advisors about the use of “bond ladders.” For...