The personal finance community is a funny bunch. We complain endlessly about the average person not having very much money saved up, and yet most of our investing articles assume the reader has mountains of cash to invest. Is anyone else seeing a chicken or the egg scenario here? My latest post at InvestmentZen covers: […]

We all agree there’s no easier way to become a millionaire than steadily investing into your 401K, right? After all, a new grad maxing out her 401K every year is all but guaranteed to retire with about $4 million dollars. Say, you’d like $4 million! (Me too!) So you go job hunting, survive the ringer of the […]

If you’re looking for investment advice, why not ask one of the richest humans on the planet? At least that was my obvious epiphany earlier this month, when I saw that Warren Buffett’s 2016 Letter to Shareholders just got released. Buffett’s personal letters have become a sort of cult classic, and the latest edition is […]

So you’ve finally listened to my endless posts about index fund investing. You’ve opened a Vanguard account and you’re ready to start socking away money and (hopefully) watching it soar. Almost there… you get to the “Choose Your Fund” page and… 127 matching funds?!? And 55 more ETFs?? Don’t faint just yet. I get it. […]

Hey Money Wizards, So you’ve decided to pass on becoming one of the 99% of stock traders underperforming the index, and you’ve opted for the time tested, Warren Buffet approved strategy of index fund investing. Unfortunately, there are quite a few options for index funds, and one of the most common questions I get is whether […]