Active Investing Does Not Work I’ve got more bad news for practitioners of so-called Active Investing, and investors looking for a nice retirement mutual fund to bet their whole portfolio upon. Active investing is the term that describes the investing approach of buying and selling into investments frequently, to capitalize on the lows and highs [...]
Seth Godin hits another homerun with this one. Read my comments on how this relates to investing at the bottom. Hope and the magic lottery Entrepreneurial hope is essential. It gets us over the hump and through the dip. There’s a variety of this hope, though, that’s far more damaging than helpful. This is [...]
Asset Allocation Retirement One of the most difficult things to do in asset allocation retirement diversification is to avoid the temptation to pick individual stocks. It’s fun to pick individual stocks and hope they go through the roof. Look at Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV show. It’s exciting to watching Jim shout out which stocks [...]
