personal finance
Finance Friday Articles
- Age-Appropriate Money Conversations: Teaching Kids Financial Literacy
- Beyond Financial Independence: Money Irrelevancy
- Diversify the way you think about diversification
- Getting Paid to Not Understand It
- Giving Credit
- Have a TSP Account? Know the Rules for Your Heirs
- Multi-Millionaire the Boring Way
- My 27-Year-Old Car Will Make Me a Multimillionaire
- Polish Your Estate Plan
- Roth Conversions
- The State of the Disability Insurance Industry in 2024
Finance Friday Articles
- 31 Years of Stock Market Returns
- Armed and Ready
- How This Police Officer Learned to Get a Fair Shake on Wall Street
- Inflation has some military families ‘grasping at pennies’
- Taxes in Early Retirement
- The Physician’s Guide to the Best Disability Insurance Companies
- Timing the Stock Market Using Valuations
- VWIUX vs. FMBIX: Which Bond Fund Is Best?
- What We Believed
- Why It’s Usually a Mistake to Own Individual Stocks
Finance Friday Articles
- Chasing Star Fund Manager Performance
- Fear of the Decumulation Stage in Retirement
- Financial Waterfalls for New Residents and Attendings
- Home Insurance is a Really Big Problem
- Money Market Funds Are Not a Free Lunch
- Nothing is Certain Except Debt and Taxes
- The 60/40 Portfolio Win Rate
- The Childcare Options for a High-Income Family
- The Good-Enough Financial Organization System
- Why People Don’t Save Enough For Retirement
- Why You Must Adjust for Inflation in Long-Term Planning
Finance Friday Articles
- 15 Ways to Lose Money in the Markets
- Avoiding Bad Guys
- Can You Still Get Disability Insurance with Your Health History?
- Catastrophizing Debt
- How to Track Your Net Worth (ft. my FREE Net Worth Tracker)
- Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?
- Still Learning
- Vanguard CEO Ramji: ‘Criticism Will Make Us Better’
- What Physician Specialties Have the Happiest Marriages?
- Why Investors Missed Out on 15% of Total Fund Returns
- Why Retirees and Investors Approaching Retirement Should Reduce Risk Today
- Why your parents should buy you a house
Finance Friday Articles
- 10 Reasons Doctors Spend Too Much Money
- A Key to Surviving the Global Market Selloff: Be Lazy
- Arm the Next-Generation Medical Ship
- Bonds Are Still a Hedge Against Bad Times in the Stock Market
- Financial Benefits During Residency That Are Vastly Underrated and Overrated
- Financial Independence Is Not the Holy Grail
- Ignore the Rule
- Is the Kaiser Pension Worth It?
- Turning on a Dime
- What Do Good Financial Advisors Cost in 2024?
- What Gets Attention is Rarely Valuable
- What is Coast FIRE? The Ultimate Guide to Semi-Retirement
- When Market Ignorance is Bliss
- Why It’s Usually a Mistake to Own Individual Stocks
Finance Friday Articles
- 3 Steps to Stay Sane in a Volatile Market
- Fiduciary Duty – Theory versus Reality
- Gen X finally tops boomer 401(k) balances, but will it be enough to retire?
- How Long Can Stocks Underperform?
- Is Anybody Else Getting Nervous About an AI Bubble in the Stock Market?
- Protecting My Sanity
- Question of Interest
- The Impact of Fed Rate Cuts on Stocks, Bonds & Cash
- The Median US Stock Has a Negative Return
- This is Normal
- Unasked Questions
Finance Friday Articles
- A new Lifecycle Fund is now available
- Automate Your Savings: If You Don’t See it, You Won’t Miss It
- Down with Inflation
- The Benefits of a Paid Off House
- The Sustainable Path is the Only Path
- This New Rollover Option Could Change Your College-Fund Plans
- Waiting for “The Dip” to Invest
- Why You Should Bring Your Kids into Your Estate Planning Meetings
Finance Friday Articles
- 12 Negotiation Techniques You Need to Know
- $656,000 of Frugal Things I Still Love Doing
- Capturing Credit toward a Federal Annuity for Military Service
- Effective tax-saving strategies for investors
- Help clients draw down inherited IRAs tax-efficiently
- How to Prepare Children for an Inheritance
- How to Risk-Adjust Returns
- Looking to Retire Overseas? Start by Answering These 3 Questions
- One is Not Enough
- Protecting My Sanity
- Report Cautions of ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Default Retirement Saving
- Small Businesses That You Control
- The Best Investment I Ever Made (the Pros & Cons of Owning a Vacation Home)
- The Biggest Winners in the Stock Market
- TSP Highlights New Fund, Other Changes Under Way
- What’s the Worst Long-Term Return For U.S. Stocks?
- What to Do If You Inherit a 401(k) or TSP Account
- Why Lifestyle Creep is Mostly a Myth
Finance Friday Articles
- A Balanced Portfolio Always Comes with Regrets
- A Pre-Retirement Financial Checklist
- How a Moderate Income Physician Should Think About Being an Accredited Investor
- Is a “Total Bond” Fund Still a Good Choice?
- Is 100 Percent in the C Fund a Good Idea?
- Off the Beaten Path
- Remaining in the TSP at Separation One of Four Options
- The Minimum Investment vs. Diversification Dilemma in Real Estate
- The Risks We Miss
- TSP Doing Away with Security Questions as Part of Auth Process
- What To Do at All Time Highs
- Why International Investing Makes Sense for Long-Term Investors
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