Back in 2017, a strange thing happened in the US stock market. For the first time in history, the number of index funds actually surpassed the number of stocks. In other words, the collective baskets of stocks outnumbered the actual number of stocks those same baskets were holding. How’s that for a head spinner? […]
Archives for August 2018
Monthly Link-O-Rama XI
Welcome to the 11th Link-O-Rama, my recurring series featuring my favorite articles from around the web. Every week, I share my favorite articles on investing, saving money, and early retirement from around the web. Oh, and like always, I reserve the right to throw in a completely random but entertaining piece! 1. Putting the zero tax strategy […]
How To Decide Between An ETF Or Mutual Fund?
[Note: This is a guest post I originally published on InvestmentZen.com, titled How to Decide Between an ETF or Mutual Fund?] So you’ve seen the light and you no longer have any Wolf of Wall Street style illusions of grandeur. You’ve decided to avoid becoming one of the 99% of stock traders underperforming the index, and […]
Why I’m Not Going to FinCon This Year (and the life lesson anyone with a goal needs to hear)
If you follow the personal finance blog-o-sphere (what an annoying word, btw…) you’ve no doubt stumbled onto the weird phenomenon that sprouts up every fall. For one week every September-ish, you’ll notice your favorite personal finance blogs get eerily quiet. Then, they re-emerge, but they’re not talking about money anymore. Instead, they’re blasting your news […]
The Only 3 Expenses that Matter for Saving Serious Cash
We’ve all heard of the 80/20 rule right? It’s sometimes more fancily referred to as The Pareto Principle after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who calculated 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Of course, some business management consultants took the idea and ran with it, pitching the idea that […]
