How should you pick the best mutual funds?
- Best performer last year?
- Featured in a magazine?
- Outperformer over time?
Active Management: Legend or Reality?
As you might expect, there are many ways to invest poorly. Many people tell you to find a professional stock fund manager to get the best returns.
- Is this true?
- How good are they?
- How do I pick a good one?
- How much does it cost?
Is Investing Gambling?
People frequently say that investing in the stock market is just gambling.
– Is that true?
– Would it be good if that were true? Let’s find out.
– Is that true?
– Would it be good if that were true? Let’s find out.
Who’s on my side? – Part 3 – Mutual Fund Managers
What Fund Managers are on your side?
- The expensive ones?
- Those with a great record?
- The cheap ones?
The stakes are high, so it’s important to get this right.
What’s Wrong With Women?
Women don’t tend to invest as well as they could, getting far lower returns than the market average. How bad a problem is it? What should be done?
What’s the problem? It comes down to our confidence in one area.
Horse Laugh Time
Bashing index funds is a popular theme, but do the criticisms have value?
There are reasons to prefer index funds (now 18% of funds):
- Supported by academic research.
- Supported by history.
- Most active managers don’t beat the index.
- Index funds have tax advantages and lower fees.
A well-meaning blogger touts the CGM Focus Fund as being spectacularly better than the S&P 500. Let’s give him credit for courage, and then demolish his ideas.
Who’s on my side? – Part 2 – Custodians
Admittedly, a guard cat is ideal in many ways. We rescued a feral cat who takes the business of defending her house very seriously. She growls and runs to the door when the doorbell rings.
Not everyone has Smoggy the Death Cat, so whom should you entrust with your investments?
Lucky Lottery Losers
How could it be lucky to lose the lottery?Wouldn’t it be a good thing though, since most of us lose???
The Tax That You Ask to Pay
Usually, people want to avoid unnecessary taxes–except for one. That one they line up to pay, even though it’s a voluntary tax. Stranger yet, people think paying this tax makes them money. What strange, upside down world am I talking about?I Declare War on Powerball
Why am I doing this?
- Do I want to keep people from winning?
- Don’t I realize it’s harmless?