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What’s up with single-stock ETFs?
What’s up with single-stock ETFs? Find out more from Sarah in this week’s blog.
The Difference Between a Forecast, a Wish, and a Worry
(By David Booth, Executive Chairman and Founder, Dimensional Fund Advisors. Learn more about Dimensional Fund Advisors here. The original post was published on August 2, 2022 and can be found here.) When I was growing up, our local newspaper, the Kansas City Star, was...
In It for the Long Haul
Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary. That number sounds ridiculously high to me, because I clearly remember celebrating my parent’s and grandparents’ 50th anniversaries, and we’re getting very close. It also got me thinking about how...
From Last to First
I know I am not the only one that is thrilled for the return of football season. College football kicked off in full force this past weekend. I spent a chunk of my weekend moving furniture and painting as we shuffle our kids’ bedrooms in preparation for baby #3...
What’s Happening with Student Debt?
As you may have heard last week, President Biden made some announcements involving sweeping changes to our student debt system. There is still a way to go before we see exactly how this plays out, but as it impacts nearly 43 million Americans, we thought it would be...
Things That Don’t Make Financial Sense
Personal finance is a big world of gray. Some decisions don’t mathematically make sense on paper, but we do them anyway. Sometimes it’s unknowingly and other times it’s because we think either we know what’s going to happen in the future, or maybe we think we’re being...
Ingenuity and the Investor
(From Perspectives, a blog provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors, LP. This post was authored by Dimensional Vice President, Weston Wellington. The original post was published on August 9, 2022 and can be found here.) A recent news item reported that Frederick Smith...
Snapchat Investing
I recently requested prospectuses and other sales material from a national brokerage firm for investments held in the account of a new client transitioning to TAAG and was told they no longer had the information because the materials had ‘expired from our view.’ I...
Is Now a Good Time to Invest?
I get the question quite often from clients, friends and family… Is now a good time to invest? Usually, the question comes with a pre-conceived opinion by the person asking of how I should answer. “The market is up a lot, should I wait until there is a dip and buy...
Should I Buy an I Bond?
According to the U.S. Treasury, an I bond is “a savings bond that earns interest based on combining a fixed rate and an inflation rate.” The Treasury first issued the bonds in 1998, so this is not a new product, but suddenly financial headlines, a chat with a neighbor...
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