Category: Investing
After many years of data collection, passively managed index funds have outperformed their actively managed mutual fund counterparts. A large part of that is the significantly lower fees they …
Occasionally a story of corporate abuse of customers, employees, the environment, or taxpayers comes along that is so disgusting, it can’t be ignored. The Mylan EpiPen, Volkswagen Dieselgate, and …
Every so often someone will ask me what I would recommend they invest in. There’s a lot of ways this question is phrased, and it’s not always so direct. …
I often get asked where I’d recommend others invest their assets for the best returns, with the least amount of risk (of course). “Low-risk, high-returns!” has a certain ring …
In response to my active vs. passive investment fund performance post, a reader, Heidi, wrote in with a question, How do I know if my vanguard funds are “passive”? …
Despite terrifying actively managed fund results like this, “84% of large-cap funds generated lower returns than the S&P 500 in the latest five-year period and 82% fell shy in …
Fresh off the second huge stock market rally from a frightening decline in the past year, I thought it would be timely to do a bit of reflecting. For …
Vanguard recently announced that over the past six months, they have reduced expense ratios for 200 fund and ETF shares amounting to aggregate savings of about $215 million. That’s …
