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Teacher To Student: "It's Better To Be Lazy"

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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…

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I received the headlined quote in an email from a 35 year old American couple that bought an Investment Linked Assurance Scheme through Friends Provident. But…

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If you saw me in my bathing suit, you’d probably notice that my body bends like one of those rain forest trees straining at an…

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Expatriate Investors - What Your Financial Advisor Probably Doesn’t Know: Part II

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In my last post, I argued that it doesn’t make sense for expatriate Americans to invest in actively managed funds. For starters, the odds of…

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American Expatriates—What Your Financial Advisor Probably Doesn’t Know

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If you’re an American expatriate, and you’ve been living overseas for some time, it’s likely that the vast majority of your investments will…

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What Are Your Investments Really Worth?

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I don’t think that most people know what their investments are really worth. If your portfolio was created for the purpose of providing future retirement…

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05-04-11 - Harry Speaks Up For Indexes

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Harry believes that if you get sold on actively managed funds from the big Canadian banks, then you’re making a huge mistake. The funds from…

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EARCOS Seminar 2011 - Indexed Investing

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Additional Reading 1.  Here are some books that I recommend, on indexed investing.  I’ve categorized them from “Beginner books” to “Advanced Books” here [https://andrewhallam.…

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How Long Does It Take To Prepare For the Series 7 Certification?

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Today, I was presenting an investment seminar on indexed investing to a group of South East Asian based school teachers. Most of them were Americans. I…

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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

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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,…

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