by Rob Bennett | Investing, Retirement
You are saving and investing to finance an old-age retirement. A very basic question you need to have an answer to is — How much do you need to save to be sure your retirement will be a comfortable one? We turn to The Retirement Risk Evaluator for the answer....
by Rob Bennett | Investing
I’m a critic of Buy-and-Hold. I believe that investors MUST change their stock allocations in response to big valuation shifts to have any hope whatsoever of keeping their risk profile roughly constant. I don’t believe that is is possible that a Buy-and-Hold...
by Rob Bennett | Investing
I say controversial things about stock investing. Most people believe that following a Buy-and-Hold strategy is the way to go. I do not. Buy-and-Hold is rooted in the research of University of Chicago Economics Professor Eugene Fama. I advocate Valuation-Informed...
by Rob Bennett | Investing
Most people will react to the question I pose in the headline with puzzlement. Buy-and-Hold is an investing strategy. It has nothing to do with politics. It’s not liberal OR conservative. I don’t think that’s right. Buy-and-Hold is not, as is popularly believed, the...
by Rob Bennett | Investing
1) Long-Term Stock Returns Are Highly Predictable. All the historical return data shows this. It’s been true for 140 years. But people have the hardest time believing it. No one can predict where stock prices will be next year. How the devil can it be possible to know...
by Rob Bennett | Investing
Stocks are risky. Everybody knows that. Except me. I don’t believe it is so. Not anymore. My aim with this post is to explain why and see if I can persuade you that maybe I am on to something. When you buy an index fund, you are buying a share of the productivity of...