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Finance Friday Articles
- 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a Financial Advisor
- 15 Reasons You Will Regret an RV in Retirement
- About Those Bonds
- Check on Yourself
- Earning a Roth (for your kids who have jobs)
- How Underpaid Are Military Doctors?
- Retirement is Coming
- Run, Don’t Walk, for I Bonds
- Should Medical Students Buy Disability Insurance?
- Should You Die With Zero?
- VFIAX vs. VTSAX: Which Vanguard Mutual Fund Is Right For You?
- WHAT DO YOU SPEND MONEY ON? LESSONS FROM OUR CLIENTS ABOUT SPENDING THAT BRINGS TRUE JOY.
- Why You Shouldn’t Abandon Bonds:
Finance Friday Links
- 8 Reasons Why Doctors Are Lousy Investors and How to Overcome Them
- Cash No Longer Trash
- Getting to Happy
- My Emergency Fund in Action
- Retirement Riddles
- The Fatal Flaw in Your Retirement Plan’s Target Date Funds
- The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Gets a New Look—and I Don’t Love It
- TIPS Can Help With Inflation, but Are You Courting Other Risk?
- When Are Roth Accounts Better then Tax-Deferred?
- Why your clients shouldn’t abandon bonds
Finance Friday Articles
- 6 key things to know about inflation-indexed bonds paying 9.62 percent
- Are You Leaving Money on the Table From Your Funds’ Returns?
- Individual Investor Behavior: What Does the Research Say?
- Investors Do Well with “All-in-One” Funds
- Physician Disability Insurance
- Should You Get a 40- (or 50-) Year Mortgage?
- Should You Invest in a Roth or Traditional 401(k)?
- Staying Rich When You Get a Windfall
- Why So Few are Taking Advantage of TSP Mutual Fund Window
Finance Friday Articles
- 6 Things to Do in a Bear Market
- 9 Key Questions
- Investing in a Bear Market
- Keep the Faith in Indexing
- Stocks for the Long Run
- THE RISKS OF HIGHLY CONCENTRATED EQUITY PORTFOLIOS
- Tips to successfully transfer your wealth
- Why Is There So Much Hype in Real Estate Investing?
- Why Tax-Loss Harvesting During Down Markets Isn’t Always A Good Idea
- Why You’ll Probably Never Run Out Of Money
- Why Your 60/40 Balanced Portfolio Isn’t Working in 2022
Finance Friday Articles
- 7 Ways for Physicians to Make an Extra $1,000 Per Month
- Beneficiary Designations Still Valid Even if Not in New System, Says TSP
- Bond Market Is Flashing a Recession Warning–Again
- Investing a Lump Sum When the Stock Market is Down
- Military families suffering from higher costs? Here’s some relief.
- Neglected Ideas
- Take a Bow if You Stuck to Traditional Investments in 2022
- The Upside of Downside
- Unleashing the Power of Your Income
- Vanguard’s economic and market outlook at midyear 2022
- What is a Financial Advisor? How to Choose the Right Fit
- What Returns Should You Expect For Stocks & Bonds Over the Long Haul?
- What to Do With Extra Money in Your 529 Plan
- When to Sell
And here is a Vanguard research paper on the case for low-cost index fund investing:
Finance Friday Articles
- Beaten Down By the Bear Market? Now’s the Time to Stay Strong (And to Stay the Course)
- In Defense of Dollar Cost Averaging
- Inflation is Going Strong
- Lawmakers worry VA home loans aren’t keeping up with hot housing market
- On the Inevitability of Bear Markets
- Should I Use a Crypto Savings Account?
- Strategic asset allocation: Why it usually wins out
- The Worst 6 Months Ever For Financial Markets
- TSP Mutual Fund Window Open, but Not Much Going Through
- Umbrella Insurance for Physicians
- Watching Stocks Return to Their Rightful Owners
Finance Friday Articles
- Are TIPS Broken?
- Building Portfolios to Last
- Happier Days Ahead
- Home Sweet Whatever
- How to Buy a House the Right Way
- How Vanguard investors are reacting to market volatility
- Is the 60/40 Really Dead This Time?
- MAKING DECISIONS IS EXHAUSTING. RULES AND AUTOMATION HELP YOU MAKE FEWER DECISIONS IN YOUR FINANCES.
- Retiring into a bear market: What to do, what to avoid
- The Case for Owning Bonds
- The Gains of High Flying Individual Stocks are All Gone
- Time for a Pep Talk
- Top 10 Financial Mistakes for New Attendings
- Transitioning Into Retirement: Your Plan A And Plan B
- Vanguard: 60% Stock-40% Bond Portfolio Isn’t Dead
- When Should You Hire a Financial Advisor?
- Where does the wealth go when asset prices go down?
- Why I Don’t Have Bonds in My Portfolio
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Moves To Consider Making During This Extreme Volatility With Crypto
- 7 Ways to Increase Your Savings Rate
- 10 Frugal Hacks to Automatically Save Money for Busy Professionals
- 10 Things The Wealthy Do Differently
- 10 Years Of Fake Retirement Later: The Most Important Takeaways
- Crypto billionaire says Fed is driving current downturn
- Cryptocurrencies All Fall Down
- How I Made $30,000 Taking Doctor Surveys
- Insuring Infirmity
- Is It Just ‘Too Hard?’ Know Your Circle of Competence
- Just Keep Buying Book Review
- Keep It Going
- Ken Dychtwald Breaks Down The Four Stages Of Retirement
- Lemons to Lemonade
- Six Things That Might Go Right
- Think Outside the Portfolio
- TSP Responds to Customer Service Complaints
- Which is Safer: Rental Houses or Stock Investments? (a Case Study)
- Winning the End Game
Finance Friday Articles
- Divide and Rule
- Like the phoenix, the 60/40 portfolio will rise again
- Paying for Your Child’s College Education with the Post-9/11 GI Bill
- Real-Life Strategies to Mitigate Sequence-of-Return Risk
- S&P 500 Sector Quilt
- Stocks on Sale
- Tax Shelter When Selling Your House
- The Real Problem With Inflation
- Underspending in Retirement: A Sign of Fulfillment or Fear?
Finance Friday Articles
- 3 Steps to Stay Sane in a Volatile Market
- Don’t Let The Awful Treasury Direct Website Stop You From Buying Series I Bonds
- Filling the retirement income gap caused by the pandemic
- How to Be a DIY Investor
- It’s Time for Tax-Loss Selling
- Main Street Investors Break Records in Rush for U.S. Government Bonds
- Nick Maggiulli On Why You Should ‘Just Keep Buying’
- Perspective in a time of heightened volatility
- The 4% Rule and Safe Withdrawal Rates
- The Worst Years Ever For a 60/40 Portfolio
- What If This Turns Out to Be a Terrible Time to Retire?
- Why Perfectionism Ruins Portfolios
Here’s a Vanguard research paper entitled “The case for low-cost index fund investing”:
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