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Don’t Expect Too Much From Exotic Asset Classes

If you like having a complicated portfolio and owning exotic asset classes for diversification, you might want to prepare yourself before reading Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World by William Bernstein. Most of the … [Read the rest]

Amazon Prime: $8.98 Echo Dot (3rd Gen) + Music Unlimited Trial

Update: Offer is back again, but sold out quickly last time! Amazon has brought back a good deal for Prime members interested in a cheap Echo Dot (newest 3rd generation). Sign up for a 1-month Amazon Music Unlimited membership for $7.99, and … [Read the rest]

The Rare Stock Market Do-Over

It used to be that you were supposed to use your experience from the 2008 stock market drop to help understand your true risk tolerance. Well, now we have a more recent reference point in the 2020 stock market drop. Allan Roth reminds us that … [Read the rest]

Live Cheaply and Invest In Yourself

The The Money Diaries series at Wealthsimple continues to offer periodic interviews with an interesting mix of people sharing about their financial lives. I'd never heard of Carson Mell, but I appreciated how he cared most about doing what he wanted … [Read the rest]

William Bernstein and Safe Withdrawal Rates

A recurring theme in investing is that you start out learning the simple basics, then you feel like you can optimize things and spend a lot of effort trying to do so, and eventually you realize that simple is probably just fine. No matter how … [Read the rest]

Best Interest Rates on Cash – June 2020

Another month of slight rate drops, although bank accounts can still beat out Treasury bonds and/or brokerage cash sweep options by a significant margin. Here's my monthly roundup of the best interest rates on cash for June 2020, roughly sorted … [Read the rest]

The Role of Luck in Long-Term Investing, and When To Stop Playing The Game

I am re-reading a series called "Investing for Adults" by William Bernstein. By "Investing for Adults", Bernstein means that he assumes that you already know the basics of investing and that he can skip to more advanced insights. There are four … [Read the rest]

Citibank $200/$400/$700 Checking Account Bonus 2020

Citibank has tiered $200, $400, and $700 bonus offers when you open a new eligible Citi checking account by 6/30/20 and deposit and maintain a certain balance for 60 to 150 days. There is also a $1,500 bonus if you have $200,000 to move over. … [Read the rest]

Creative Business Idea: Selling Baked Goods Online via Etsy

My family enjoys watching Kid's Baking Championship on Food Network, and I'm always impressed how many of these 8-13 year-old contestants have a side baking business! Last weekend, the WSJ article How Etsy Became America’s Unlikeliest Breadbasket … [Read the rest]

Vanguard Digital Advisor Services (VDAS) Review: Only Slightly More Expensive Than Target Date Fund

Updated. Vanguard has a new "robo-adviosr" product, Vanguard Digital Advisor Services (VDAS). Here is the new full PDF brochure. After reading through the entire brochure (again!), here are a few new things that I noticed: Glide path is now … [Read the rest]

Suze Orman’s Updated Financial Advice 2020

The NYT has a new Suze Orman comeback piece called Suze Orman Is Back to Help You Ride Out the Storm. I'm old enough to feel nostalgia over the peak Suze Orman years, and it was interesting to read how some of her advice as changed: Some of Ms. … [Read the rest]

Tastyworks Brokerage Bonus: 100 Free Shares, Worth $100 to $600

Free stock shares are the trendy bonus nowadays - WeBull, SoFi, Robinhood, Public, and more - but how about 100 free shares? Tastyworks wants your attention by offering 100 free shares of a randomly-picked stock valued between $1 and $6 per share. … [Read the rest]