personal finance
Finance Friday Articles
- 9 Retirement Surprises
- Avoiding Burnout & a Mid-Life Crisis
- Buy & Hold vs. Fear & Greed
- Comfort Has a Cost
- Designing Your Ideal Week: Time Management Strategies for Doctors
- How Much Money Is Enough to Make You Happy? Most Americans Say $284,000, Others Say $1.2 Million
- Index Funds Have Officially Won
- Lessons of a Lifetime
- Making It Easy
- Paula Pant Asks: Do You Want to Retire or Are You Simply Tired?
- The Problem with 60/40
- TSP Mutual Fund Window Expenses: Fair or Foul?
- What’s the Investment Case For Gold?
- Yesterday’s Influence
Finance Friday Articles
- A Conversation About Investing in Whole Life Insurance
- Every Bit Helps
- Focus on the things you can control
- How Much Cash Should You Have In Your Portfolio?
- Money Matters
- Private Real Estate Lending Funds
- The 3 Ways to Get Rich
- The buoyancy of bonds
- The Case For and Against Dividend ETFs
- The Real Reason for the Housing Unaffordability Crisis
- What If You Invested at the Peak Right Before the 2008 Crisis?
- What Lies Beneath
Finance Friday Articles
- 11 Financial Mistakes Easily Avoided
- Beware of Pump-and-Dump Schemes
- Creating Generational Wealth
- Death by Retirement
- Evidence to the Contrary
- How to Do a Backdoor Roth IRA
- Spend Intentionally
- The Law and Strategies to Convert a College 529 to a Roth
- There is no holy grail of investing
- What’s Driving the Stock Market Returns?
Finance Friday Articles
- Fear of Heights
- How Often Do Bear Markets Occur?
- How Physicians Are Affected When a Government Shutdown Is Looming
- How to Empower Our Future Generations with Financial Literacy
- Principles for investing success in four figures
- TSP Stays Mum on Some Details of I Fund Transition (details pasted below)
- We Redid All of Our Estate Planning: Here’s How We Made Sure to Find Emotional Peace
- When Should You Hire a Financial Advisor?
- Why People Mistakenly Think the US Economy Is Terrible
Here is the latest “blurb” on the I Fund TSP transition that is supposed to happen in 2024:
Expanding Investment Options
I’m excited to announce we’re changing the International Stock Index Investment Fund (I Fund) benchmark from the MSCI EAFE Index to the MSCI ACWI IMI ex USA ex China ex Hong Kong Index. The new benchmark increases exposure to non-U.S. stocks from 55% to 90%, the number of countries from 21 to 44, and the number of stocks from roughly 800 to more than 5,000. It will also add access to international small cap, emerging markets, and Canada for the first time. This change should produce a higher risk-adjusted return for the I Fund over the long term.
Finance Friday Articles
- Can Anyone Challenge the Economic Dominance of the United States?
- Diversification Always Matters (My Syndicated Investment Goes to Zero)
- How Much is That $70,000 Truck Costing You?
- How To Afford a House These Days
- How to recover the lost art of disciplined investing
- No Need to Dwell
- Should You Self Insure Your Home?
- The Most Overrated Things in Personal Finance
- The Pentamillionaire Physician: Your Roadmap to Achieving $5 Million Net Worth
- Where is Housing Still Affordable?
- Which Investments to Keep Out of Your Taxable Account
- YOU HAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. PERHAPS YOU CAN INVEST IN FANCY INVESTMENTS, BUT YOU NEEDN’T.
Finance Friday Articles
- 4 Tax Mistakes to Avoid
- 7 Signs Your Advisor is Doing Real Financial Planning
- 8 Reasons Doctors Suck at Money
- 17 Thoughts About Money
- Can You Live On Dividends From Your Portfolio?
- From COW to KARS
- New Year, New Legislation to Exempt Military Retirement Pay From State Taxes
- Should You Invest in Stocks at All-Time Highs?
- The path to financial wellness starts here
- Travel Hacking for Students, Residents, and Those Entering the World of Credit Card Rewards
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