Retirement Investing
Bob Carlson offers his expert opinion on where to invest your money so that you can get through retirement safely and securely
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March 2015
March 27, 2015 05:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m going to be in Stamford, Connecticut making two free presentations on April 22. One presentation will be at 10:00 a.m. and the other will be at 5:30 p.m. The topic at each will be Retirement Planning: How to Create and Implement a Successful […]
Money Lessons for Children
Ron Leiber of The New York Times wrote a book about how not to raise spoiled children. You can read a review and summary of the book here, including the seven important lessons from the book. He advocates supplying an allowance independent of chores because, he writes, children “ought to do [chores] for the same […]
Against Passive Investing
Martin Whitman of Third Avenue Funds and the rest of his team spend a lot of time in their 2014 Fourth Quarter shareholder letters explaining why deep value investing such as theirs is better for investors than passive index investing. They point out that passive investing becomes more popular after long bull runs, such as […]
Profiling a Successful Investor
Here’s a profile of a great investor most never heard of. He runs the investment portfolio for Travelers’ Insurance and has done a splendid job. The portfolio and profile are full of surprises. Investing for a conservative insurer is much like investing for a retiree, so many of you can learn a bit from the […]
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Two Schools of Investing
Two hedge fund honchos had a conversation at a conference in New York recently, and Forbes reported on this conversation between Bill Ackman and Ray Dalio. The two contrasted their very different but successful investing approaches. The bottom line is that Dalio worries about a lot of things these days while Ackman is less worried. […]
Teaching the Kids About Money
Americans in general are financially illiterate. Even people who are financially secure often arrived there by accident and make a lot of mistakes about finances. For years, the academic world’s been studying this situation and looking for better ways to teach youngsters about money. Here’s a story about one result. (Subscription might be required.) Their […]
February 2015
February 28, 2015 04:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review You still can attend my talk tomorrow to the local Washington, D.C. chapter of the AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) You can find details here. Greece finally was on the backburner this week. The country presented some reform proposals to European officials that […]
January 2015
January 30, 2015 04:25 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Next week I’m going to be at the World MoneyShow in Orlando, Fla. So, I might not send a weekly review, or it might come at a different time than usual. If you can’t make it to the MoneyShow, you still can catch one […]
