What caught my eye this week. Was there ever a rationale way for investors with a 60/40-style equity/bond portfolio to avoid the worst of the government bond rout of 2022? It’s a question that still bothers me. As a writer and an investing blog owner, mind you, not on my own account. I didn’t own … Read more
Why would you want to unitize your portfolio? I mean life is short – and there’s a lot of good stuff on Netflix. Well… maybe you’re a stock picker who wonders whether you’re beating the market? Or perhaps you’re a passive investor keen to see how the returns from your DIY ETF portfolio compares to … Read more
People are terrible at self-regulation and self-awareness when it comes to eating. One study asked people how much bread they ate after leaving an Italian restaurant. Nearly one-third of the diners couldn’t recall how much they had. And 12% of the people who ate bread denied having eaten any at all. When asked how much … Read more
This guest post is by Vaughn, a long-time Financial Samurai reader who retired at 44 and is now 55. Vaughn’s early retirement was driven by necessity rather than choice due to a congenital bone disease. Fortunately, his high income during his working years secured a solid SSDI benefit, and his mother’s foresight provided future rental … Read more
Darren Adcock, product supervisor at Redcentric liable for the corporate’s privately owned Infrastructure-as-a-Service providing, the Redcentric Cloud, has sturdy beliefs about what differentiates a cloud vendor from a cloud companion. His views are formed by greater than 20 years of expertise overseeing mission-critical IT techniques, first within the monetary providers {industry}, and immediately in service … Read more
