I wanted to share an updated version of one of my absolute favorite charts, from our friends over at NovelInvestor. It’s always instructive to get a nice visual reminder of the value of diversification. As you can see, very rarely does the same asset top the charts multiple years in a row and it’s quite common for them to be …
Gen Y Finance Guy – Freedom Fighter Series
I’m still getting back in the swing of things, so rather than bring you our regularly scheduled Monday post, I want to direct you over to GenYFinanceGuy. He was nice enough to have me on his Freedom Fighter series today. I hope you enjoy the interview. My interview with Gen Y Finance Guy Still here? If so consider using Tradeking …
James Altucher on 401k’s
I love James Altucher. I love his writing style and his honesty and willingness to tell you about his fears, failure and embarrassing moments. I’ve bought all of his recent books and I listen to his podcast. I think 10 ideas a day, and the Daily Practice are really important ideas I’ve implemented in my life. Having said that, I ways …
Lorillard (LO) and Illustration in Dividend Reinvestment
A year ago (or so) I picked up my first shares of Lorillard (LO), which have done phenomenal for me. Without going in to how many share I have, let’s do a case study and see what it’s done over that period if you decided to put your dividends back in to the stock. I’d like to do a basic …
My new Resource Page is Live!
I’m going to keep it short, but I wanted to make sure the people following on RSS see the new content added to the Resource Page. I’ve spent many hours putting together as complete a list as possible of the best of all the best tools for frugal badassity, investing, expense tracking, travel and more. Not everything has a review …
International Investing
I recently rolled my old 401k in to my IRA after making a job change. So I’m flush with cash! So what to do? The market in the US is way up the past few years so that gives me a bit of pause on where to throw my money. Because it’s in an IRA there are really only a couple …
Dividend Growers: My Favorite Chart
My favorite chart.
The big lesson from Warren Buffett’s bet
Since this is a week for Buffett and Berkshire, now seemed like a good time to revisit the famous bet that Warren made with Ted Seides, CFA, and President / Co-CIO of Protégé Partners on who would win over 10 years – the S&P or a selection of 5 fund of funds chose by Protégé. The S&P has crushed them the past 7 years. …
What I learned from 50th Anniversary Berkshire Hathaway Letter
One of my favorite annual publications came out today, the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter! Yet again Berkshire had a killer year. Berkshire’s gain in net worth during 2014 was $18.3 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 8.3%. Over the last 50 years (that is, since present management took …
BHP Billiton bumps the dividend
BHP Billiton, one of my favorite, permanent holding companies, reported better than expected earnings today. In an environment in which the prices of all 4 of their primary commodities are in the tank, the company continued to operate admirably. Continued cost cutting and inefficiencies were found (from god know’s where) and the company reduced debt, improving it’s balance sheet. …
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