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Sequence of returns risk: Why your retirement date matters
Sequence of returns risk is the danger that bad years come at the start of retirement, while you are taking money out. I ran it on real S&P 500 data…
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Book Reviews
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money – Review
The Psychology of Money is worth reading, and it is one of the few money books I would hand to someone who has never traded. Morgan Housel’s point is…
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Tune out the noise
I went through a meditation course and took notes of my progress for several weeks in 2019, which taught me to look at myself, my actions and…
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Comparison makes market participants unhappy
Happy New Year! Absolute performance measures the annual returns of a portfolio, while relative performance compares it to a benchmark or some index…
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Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world
Simply put, compounding means money makes money that makes money that makes money. So, instead of thinking about returns in a linear fashion…