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Always Right
Sure, you might correctly guess the future direction of the stock market once, but can you do it every time?
Then, we hear from a bunch of listeners:
One shares a great Vanguard experience. Another wi…Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Retiring in a Bad Market
We start with off-topic discusssions about holidays and changes in office work. Then we discuss a concern that many share: Can I afford to retire? Plus, we question a retirement portfolio suggestion.…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Worthless Writings
Don discover a number of articles in Entreprenuer magazine that seem to be created from the same formula by a stock "research" firm in Kalkota. Plus, a comment of our tax-free investing advice.
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
More Pointless Products
Tom and Don take a look at a couple of popular investnents that no one needs; buffer funds, private real estate.
Then a listener wonders how to get into Dimensional Funds' products?
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
401 Fiduciary Failure?
United Healthcare has been using expensive funds in their 401k plan. Should they have looked for cheaper products? Looks like a court will decide.
Then we take lots of listener questions:
Is Vanguard …Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
1,000 and 10,000
As the market collapsed again, how bad has the market actuall been for real investors? Then, what should you do with your student loan forgiveness? How do you pick the right mutual funds? We share th…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
A Better Way to Q&A
Don spends another day answering listeners questions:
What to we think about market timing? How can he add small and emerging markets with a mediocre 401k? What is the worst case scenarion for an I-B…Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Are There No Fiduciaries?
We explore one of those lists of the "best" financial "advisors." What makes this list of commissioned brokers the "best" wealth managers? We ask and answer that question.
Plus, listeners want to know…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Are There No Rules?
Tom is back. First, we discover that active mutual funds can pick their own securities benchmarks against which they are compared. Now, it appeard that insitutional fund managers are setting their ow…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Just Change the Rules
Don't like the way your active mutual fund compares to the competition? No problem. Just pick a better benchmark. It's perfectly legal and very effective at misdirecting investors. Don also considers…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago