Bond ladder?
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Something to think about...
Archive for January, 2009
David Swensen interviews
Saturday, January 24th, 2009On BNN here and on Charlie Rose here. Also, OpenYale has its Econ 252: Financial Markets course available online.
Extended Interview with Warren Buffett
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Here on Night Business Report. Transcript is here. The most important investment lesson is to look at a stock as a piece of business not just some thing that jiggles up and down or that people recommend or people talk about earnings being up next quarter, something like that, but to ...
Charts of Annual Investment Returns
Saturday, January 24th, 2009FWF has a thread compiling charts of annual investment returns.
Resume Tips
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Just in case I need that new job... 6 words that make your resume suck
WaterAid
Friday, January 23rd, 2009I think I've found a charity that I'll donate to regularly: WaterAid - providing clean water and sanitation to the world's poorest.
Condos for Sale
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Huge discounts! Not even close to the bottom yet, imho...
Asset Allocation
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Replicated from Bernstein's Four Pillars of Investing: I can tolerate losing ___ % of my portfolio in the course of earning higher returns: Percent of my portfolio invested in stocks: 35% 80% 30% 70% 25% 60% 20% 50% 15% 40% 10% 30% 5% 20% 0% 10% --- Basic Truths About Portfolio Management: A Consensus View Among the Experts Simple Chart: Table 1. Asset Allocation for the "Typical" Investor: The Broad Consensus Stocks ...
Spousal RRSPs
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009How they work - it allows for income splitting between spouses but if you read through the comments, it seems that spousal RRSPs only make sense in limited circumstances.