Which Makes More Sense for Retirees: A Total-Return or Income Portfolio?

Total-return investing focuses on building diversified portfolios from stocks and bonds to seek greater long-term investment growth.
How Index Investing Became What It Is Today

Index investing came from humble beginnings to become one of the most widely used strategies in use today.
What Is the Stock Market and How Does It Work?

Before you go investing your life savings in the stock market, you should have a basic understanding of what the market is and how it works.
How Can I Manage Sequence Risk in Retirement?

Sequence of returns risk is a major concern for even the most well-prepared retirees, but there are steps you can take to manage it.
One of the Most Successful Active Managers of all Time Shows Why Active Management Doesn’t Work

The appeal of market timing is obvious. Who wouldn’t want to get in and out of the market at the best time every time? We’ve talked a lot about market timing in the past – timing risk premiums, trying to time the markets on a daily basis, and the importance of staying disciplined even when it seems obvious the markets are going to go down.
Indexes 101, Part 2: Why So Many Indexes?

Everyone has heard of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones, but what’s the difference between the two? And which one should you trust?
Why Does Everyone Experience Such Different Retirement Income Outcomes?

Individual investors are vulnerable to the sequence of market returns experienced over their investing lifetimes. Individuals who behave in exactly the same way over their careers—saving the same percentage of the same salary for the same number of years—can experience disparate outcomes based solely upon the specific sequence of investment returns that accompanies their career and retirement.
What Does It Mean When People Say the Trump Rally Has Created an ‘Overvalued’ Market?

A number of people are suggesting that the Trump Rally, along with the longer-term bull market, has pushed prices beyond justification. Therefore, the markets must be on the verge of a downturn. Are they right?
Indexes 101, Part 1: What Is Index Investing?

Everyone has heard of investing in an index, but not many people understand what that really means, so we decided to break it down for you.
Building A Retirement Income TIPS Ladder

A TIPS ladder can be constructed similarly to a Treasury strips ladder, learn how it’s done here.