Diversification works – and it still matters.

Despite being easy to get into, investing is a hard pursuit to do well over time if you only invest in individual companies.

If the worst case hits us, no asset will be immune – stocks, farmland, commercial real estate, you name it.

Knowledge is power. That’s not a novel thought of mine. It’s a well-worn saying. But the reason knowledge is power is because of confidence.

Life is chock-full of twists and turns, unexpected detours, and completely unforeseen circumstances. It keeps things interesting.

The best lessons tend to be the simplest. That’s certainly true for investment lessons.

The investment industry, like all others, has been transformed over the past few decades.

Sometimes when things are too calm for too long, you start to get suspicious. Parents to younger children know this all too well.

The stock market is not your friend.

There are thousands of intelligent, articulate, and well-meaning citizens of this world. Many are tremendously convincing, too.

Doing well as an investor isn’t hard. In fact, too often investors make it far harder than it needs to be. Simple beats complex.

Fear is always in the air, but there are occasionally epic outbreaks of this emotion when it comes to financial markets.

But it’s fair and reasonable to say interest rates today are high. We have actual data to prove it.

Financial markets go up. But they also go down, as we have been painfully reminded in 2022. Given what’s already occurred, I wanted to...

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When investing, we often don’t think of an order of operations to maximize our investment dollars. But like math class – multiplication...

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