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Ripped Off: Can You Trust Your Financial Adviser?

Learn how a financial adviser's compensation method can affect his/her advice and how you can avoid getting ripped off! read more »
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Personal Finance in the Bible

A categorized list of Bible scriptures about personal finance... read more »
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The Basics of Personal Finance

A simple guide to the basics of personal finance... read more »
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A Closer Look at a Diversified 100% Stock Portfolio

Find out the true risk of investing in a 100% stock portfolio and why you shouldn't listen to the doom and gloom spouted off by the media. read more »
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The 100% Stock Portfolio: Why Not?

If you have a long enough time horizon and a high enough tolerance for volatility, what's to stop you from allocating your entire portfolio to stock[...] read more »
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Asset Allocation for Young Investors: Go "All-In?"

For investors in their 20s who have already shown to have nearly perfect risk tolerance, is there any reason to own fixed income in their retirement [...] read more »
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Carnival of Personal Finance - Cyber Monday Edition

The best Personal Finance Carnival on the web. This week's host is The Mighty Bargain Hunter. read more »
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Greater Volatility = Greater Returns

Short version: When dollar-cost-averaging into an investment, greater volatility will increase your returns. read more »
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The Problem with Picking Stocks? Your Data Stinks

If you plan to pick stocks, it's important to know that nearly everything in a company's financial statements is based on estimates and assumptions[...] read more »
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American Express: Can We Blame Them?

American Express made an unpopular move yesterday. But who's to blame? After all, they're just doing their job. Perhaps we (or our elected official[...] read more »
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Are You and Oblivious Investor?

A start-to-finish take on a counter-intuitive investment philosophy. What do you think of it? Good ideas? Terrible ideas? read more »
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10 Things to Ignore When It Comes to Investing

Once you learn to ignore all the irrelevant info, investing becomes pretty simple. :) read more »
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A Meaningful Definition of Risk

Most people tend to define risk as simply "the chance of losing money." It seems to me that we could improve upon this definition. read more »
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Why Stocks Will Always Outperform Bonds Over Time

In the aggregate, businesses will never pay more to borrow money than they can earn by investing it. So who would you rather be? The business owner o[...] read more »
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This Week in Headlines: Just a Bunch of Noise

Another crazy week, with a bunch of crazy headlines. (None of which matter to the long-term investor...) read more »
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