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The Importance of Understanding a Stock Index… This concept is more important than ever, so I wanted to update this post I wrote a few years back, and make a video showing you how easy it is to look up the performance of the s&p500 stock index. Do you ever miss the forest for the […]
Pools and Tools
For me, summertime brings thoughts of swimming pools and gardening tools. Yesterday I spent almost the entire day happily utilizing one or the other. In today’s post, I want to address other types of pools and tools that can be used as part of an overall financial strategy. While this may not sound as fun, […]
Speaking of Global Investing
In follow up to my blog last week about global investing, I ran across this article from Forbes on a the Tweety, Browne Global Value Fund that has beaten the MSCI index by 5% average over the past 17 years. They buy undervalued securities, and it looks like their strategy has paid off. The MSCI […]
Feel Secure Around Your Investments
The stock market volatility has risen back to the level of May 6, 2010, which is the day that it had that crazy and sudden drop! I was traveling back from visiting a college for my son. My travel definitely has a high correlation with crazy things happening in the stock market! Someone could develop […]
Indexing is Like your Wardrobe
Recently I have been writing about an important term for financial women; stock market indexes. Before you convince yourself this is just another boring topic, let’s take a look at why indexes are important and how they are similar to wardrobes. Indexes measure the performance of almost every traditional investment, so they have to be important.