As a high school teacher, I’ve done plenty of reading on educational theory. How do kids learn, and how can you make it stick? If given free reign, I’d like to teach a humanities class with Larry Swedroe and RC Balaban’s latest book, Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make as my core text. With it, …
Category Archive: Smart Investing
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May
02
2011
Make Sure You Aren’t Falling Behind
If you had invested $200,000 in the world’s stock and bond markets on September, 11, 2006 (and didn’t add a penny to it) would you have made money? You should have made $61,257.13, by May, 1, 2011. How do I know? That’s what the world’s stock and bond markets would have earned you, if you …
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Apr
29
2011
Teacher To Student: “It’s Better To Be Lazy”
I’ll admit that I wasn’t a hard-working student, when I was a kid. Life was meant to be lived, I figured, rather than spent hunched over a desk, amidst books, and listening to the drone of a dull teacher. That lazy 11th grade Andrew Hallam would have been tempted to sign a pact with the …
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Mar
25
2011
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Investors deserve more credit than most academics realize. When their performances are strong, they usually stick to their selected fund companies. When their performances are weak, they generally bail. The top fund company, in terms of performance, is Vanguard. And you can see that their loyalty ranking is also number one. At the bottom of …
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Mar
24
2011
Amazing Investment Returns Earned by Prudent Americans
After the U.S. stock markets marched along at 17.5% annually from 1982 to 2000, most people knew that it would take a breather at some point. To put that growth in perspective, if you had invested $10,000 in a U.S. index fund, in 1982, it would have been worth more than $182,000—just 18 years later. …
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Mar
07
2011
Lazy Investing is Great – But Don’t Be Too Lazy!
Unlike most people’s brokerage accounts, mine doesn’t reinvest dividends or interest automatically into new shares of the indexes I own. I wish it did. It just lumps cash into the account and I have to manually direct it, at some stage. If you have an account like mine, at DBS Vickers, you’ll want to wait …
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Feb
25
2011
Indexing With a Financial Advisor
Many investors understand that the highest odds of investment success come from owning a diversified account of indexes, rather than a slew of actively managed mutual funds. But we also know that most advisors shun indexes for their clients’ portfolios because they (the advisors) make far more money selling actively managed funds instead. As simple …
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Feb
24
2011
What’s Better Than Learning From Your Investment Mistakes?
The only thing better than learning from our investment mistakes is learning from somebody else’s. As Baby Boomers are winding down their work schedules, many of them are finding, according to this Wall Street Journal article, that their investment accounts aren’t going to cover their living expenses. Hopefully, the current generation of workers is going to learn …
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I'm Andrew Hallam. Many people aren't comfortable talking about money. It's not usually a conversational dinner-time topic, and its principles are rarely taught in schools. My goal is to have a "conversation" about it here, on this blog. If you read something you find intriguing, please comment or ask your questions!
I am also the author of the book, Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned at School
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