Category: Investing

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 …

A recent Gallup poll had some very interesting numbers on stock market participation of Americans, particularly millennials. For starters, just 52% of Americans have ANY money invested in stocks! …

Update: Due to court ruling, the new fiduciary rules highlighted below were struck down in court, in early 2018, and are no longer applicable. However, the rest of the …

It’s been a while since I’ve done an investing 101 article, so I’m overdue. In this post, we’ll cover an important investing component: bid-ask spread. May sound boring, but …