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We Were NOT Jacked Up By Obamacare

Just about every year I write a post about the annual increase in our health insurance (my wife and I). We've had what I thought was the same HSA plan for many years although we have increased our...

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Do Portfolio Diversifiers Belong In Your Portfolio

My latest for Alpha Baskets is posted and titled Do Portfolio Diversifiers Belong in Client Portfolios? Over the years I have obviously been a proponent of using funds that tend to not look like the...

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Bear Markets: Different Ingredients, Same Market Behaviors

My latest for Alpha Baskets looks at the extent to which markets are relatively more complex this year than last year and a reminder that bear markets may start for different reasons but create the...

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A Decline In January Draws Attention to Portfolio Protection

My latest for Alpha Baskets looks at funds that sell short one way or another. Whether the current decline will turn out to be something meaningful or something we very quickly forget it is true that...

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What Harvard Can Teach Us About Portfolio Management

My latest at Alpha Baskets is titled What Harvard Can Teach Us About Portfolio Management. The endowment was featured in Barron's and the results lately have not been so great. The comments drew a lot...

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Weekly Market Update

One of my regular blog posts for AlphaBaskets is a Weekly Market Update which looks at macro events moving markets, ETF industry news and then a couple of what are hopefully interesting items that are...

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If You Canât Retire at 30 Then How About 38?

As a followup to the post from a couple of weeks ago about a couple in Colorado who recently retired at 30, we look at a couple now 61 who retired at 38. Although they still probably have many years...

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Investor Refresher (An Intersection of Investing and Firefighting)

My latest post for Alpha Baskets looks at an aspect of behavioral finance with an example from the firefighting world that popped up when I took my EMT refresher. It's the type of behavior we've all...

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Jerome, AZ

Drove over to Jerome for lunch today.

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Stanford Wonk Argues In Favor Of Levered Equity Funds

My latest for Alpha Baskets looks at a kind of unique idea for portfolio construction that includes liberal use of levered ETFs. The idea is similar to ideas from some other people that we've looked at...

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Getting in Front of Changing Retirement Dynamics

In my latest post for Alpha Baskets I delve into how to monetize a hobby using my firefighting as an example. The idea here, beyond the financial importance for a lot of people, are the layers of...

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Site Redesign Coming!

Next week we will implementing a site redesign that will include the kind of double R ranch style logo and the updated banner that looks like something from The Big Bang Theory.And an unrelated picture...

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Investment Go-Bag

My latest for AlphaBaskets revisits Jason Bourne's safety deposit box inspired from a WSJ article that considered the argument for blending active and passive together in a portfolio.From the...

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IPO's Are Hot Again & The Weekly Update

A twofer of posts over at Alpha Baskets.First up is a look at the hot IPO market. I found some interesting stats but I would add that there won't be a repeat of 2000 (we are below new issuance levels...

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Barron's ETF Roundtable

This week's Alpha Baskets Market Update includes a look at the Barron's ETF Roundtable including the following great quote;This is Amazon versus Barnes & Noble. The mutual fund companies are...

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What If Grantham is Right?

My latest post at Alpha Baskets looks at a couple of dour expectations for US equity returns, not so much whether to agree or disagree but think about what to do if these expectations turn out to be...

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A Properly Diversified Portfolio is Only Part of the Solution

My latest post at Alpha Baskets is titled A Properly Diversified Portfolio is Only Part of the Solution and brings together some real world examples of two concepts that we've explored before. One is...

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The Minefields of Stock Market Content

My latest for Alpha Baskets is a bit of a departure; titled The Minefields of Stock Market Content. Lately there has been bit of a dust-up about anonymous content on Seeking Alpha and paid content on...

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The Mediaâs Incomplete Coverage of the Active/Passive Debate

My latest for Alpha Baskets is titled The Media’s Incomplete Coverage of the Active/Passive Debate. Basically, media coverage of this topic doesn't circle back what different types of clients need....

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People Make Their Finances More Complicated Than They Need To Be

This week's Alpha Baskets post is titled People Make Their Finances More Complicated Than They Need To Be and features a list of simple investment rules written up by Morgan Housel at The Motley Fool.A...

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