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Investing & Retirement

Should you be hand-picking stocks? Timing the market? Or taking the “lazy portfolio” way out?

Investing and Retirement are complicated and consequential topics. The articles below address these complex ideas.

I hope you enjoy them! And let me know what other questions you’d like me to dig into.

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Overconfidence in Investing

It takes confidence to take action. Investing is risk, and risk is scary. But overconfidence leads to too much action and screws it all up.

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An Inferno of Compound Interest

The best time to extinguish a fire is at the start. Stop the compound spread as early as possible and prevent an inferno. Investing is the opposite. Interrupt your compounding as little as possible. Let your “inferno” grow and grow and grow.

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Portfolios Are Up How Much?!?!

The past four months are a terrific reminder that most of the time, your investment portfolio progresses upward, and does so quietly. The economy is not the market. The news is not the market. If you allow headlines to inform your investment decisions, you’ll quietly lose out on double-digit gains.

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Don’t Be A Dummy. Be A Chicken.

Most good habits don’t have a “set it and forget it” solution. They take work. But investors have it easy. Unless, that is, you’re being a dummy.