Book Reviews
JL Collins – The Simple Path to Wealth – Review
The Simple Path to Wealth is JL Collins’s plan for getting rich slowly: stay out of debt, spend much less than you earn, put the rest into one broad…
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S&P 500 average return: What 98 years of data really show
The S&P 500’s average return since 1928 is about 10% a year with dividends reinvested: 10.0% compounded over 98 calendar years, 1928–2025. Without…
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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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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…