Suppose you have a hot water heater in your home that works only intermittently. You go to your local Home Depot only to find that they won’t have a replacement model available for six months. Would you wait until the replacement is available before removing the old unit, or would you immediately yank the defective…
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Ask any financial planner about rebalancing your investment portfolio and he or she will invariably tell you it’s a good thing. Indeed, there’s a popular cant that goes something like “if you don’t rebalance your portfolio periodically, the market will do it for you.” In 2015 I posted an article supporting rebalancing from a non-academic…
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President Trump today ordered that the Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule – scheduled to begin implementation on April 10th – be delayed pending a review by his administration. What impact is this expected to have on consumers? Some background first. When it came to providing investment advice prior to 2016, Registered Investment Advisors (aka RIAs,…
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According to the Federal Reserve’s most recent Beige Book – a collection of anecdotal information on current economic conditions in each of its 12 districts – the U.S. economy continues to strengthen. Several districts reported a pickup in manufacturing, and the energy sector in particular was experiencing an uptick in employment for the first time…
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One of the most difficult decisions that people face when leaving an employer is whether or not to rollover their company pension to an IRA. It’s an especially difficult choice when you’ve worked at the same company for many years. If you choose to keep the money in your pension, the money will be distributed…
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Most everyone is probably aware that interest rates today in the U.S. are at historical lows. To a large extent this is due to the quantitative easing strategy that the fed has been following since the depression of 2008. Their goal was to suppress interest rates to make borrowing easier in order to stimulate the…
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