It's official: My car has become a real beater. The check engine light in my beloved Accord has been on for over a year. The engine revs too high when it idles and rattles rather loudly when I give it gas. Last month, the lining...
In last week's brief, Jared opened with this quote from Howard Marks: “By being in the top half for 14 years, he was in the top decile for the whole period. And I thought that was a great realization.” Jared went on to say, "You...
"By being in the top half for 14 years, he was in the top decile for the whole period. And I thought that was a great realization." I heard Howard Marks—the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management—say that on a podcast a couple weeks ago. He was discussing...
Two years ago this month, I wrote a piece asking you to rate your financial well-being on a scale of 1 to 10 — 1 being poor and 10 being excellent. While acknowledging that everyone would have a slightly different version, I also made an...
A research piece published in April of this year looked at how financial advisers at two large Canadian firms invested both their clients' money as well as their own. The data covered 4,000 financial advisors, 500,000 clients, and spanned 14 years. Its findings are frustrating,...
Major League Baseball is an interesting place right now. After a number of seasons where offensive numbers (especially home runs) have been trending higher than ever, a number of things have happened to suddenly and drastically curtail offensive output: a new baseball was put into...
It's not as exciting as a pirate looking at 40 but it's still hard for me to believe that in just over 7 months I'll be 50 years old. Sure, I've had more aches and pains in recent years and I've been noticing more gray...
It’s not breaking news to say the U.S. housing market is on fire. From April, 2020, to April, 2021, median home prices increased by 17.2%. There are myriad reasons for this: lack of supply (the roots of which can be traced all the way back...
Earlier this week Fidelity made some waves for an announcement that "it will issue debit cards and offer investing and savings accounts to 13- to 17-year-olds whose parents or guardians also invest with the firm. The accounts will let teens buy and sell U.S. stocks, Fidelity...
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” — Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human We all love to hear stories. A really good one can...
