ETF Battles: BND vs. TLT – Which Bond ETF is Better?
This is an excerpt of ETF Battles between TLT vs. BND on ETFguide TV – it’s a showdown between two ETFs focused on the U.S. bond…
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ETF Battles: LQD vs. JNK, Who Wins?
This is an excerpt from ETF Battles on ETFguide TV between LQD vs. JNK – two bond ETFs at opposite spectrums of credit risk. Who…
Beefing up Your Investment Portfolio’s Tactical Side in the Coronavirus Era
The Coronavirus outbreak has turned out to be more than just a Black Swan – it’s a totally random Black Piano from the sky that…
3 ETFs in Your Portfolio: Is it Enough?
This is an excerpt from the video titled Is a 3 ETF Portfolio Enough? with Ron DeLegge at ETFguide and Andrew Kadjeski at the Vanguard…
4 Benefits of Leveraged ETFs
Sitting atop this year’s performance gainers are leveraged ETFs. These are funds that use a combination of debt and derivatives to magnify their performance. Are leveraged…
3 Diversification Errors
Portfolio diversification is an investment strategy designed to limit risk by spreading money across multiple asset classes and securities. Most financial literature along with your…
5 Building Blocks for Your Investment Portfolio
The difference between well-built and poorly designed buildings can be strikingly drastic. Take for example, I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, who is a legend in…
Factors that Should Influence Your Investments
If you asked a thousand different people about the key factors that should drive their investment choices, you’re bound to get a thousand different answers.…
How Safe are Bonds?
News flash: Investors who assumed their investments in conservative bonds and bond funds (Nasdaq:LSBRX) were safe from losses are learning otherwise. Since mid-2016, the performance…
Is Your Portfolio’s Performance Satisfactory?
What’s your investment portfolio’s performance? Do you know? Just 57% of U.S. adults are “financially literate,” according to a study from Standard & Poor’s titled the…
Are You Still Investing Without a Margin of Safety?
In retrospect, Brexit turned out to be more meaningful than Grexit. And while the immediate reaction of global financial markets (NYSEARCA:VT) to the England’s decisive vote…
Sexy vs. Boring: Who’s Winning?
Higher investment risk leads to higher investment returns, right? It’s a Wall Street axiom that we’ve heard so many times it’s become ingrained in us.…
If You’re Not Preventing Stock Market Losses, You Better Start Now
What’s more important? Making gains in the stock market or preventing losses? Before answering that question, let’s list a few common fallacies about risk: •…
4 Things to Understand about Your Portfolio’s Margin of Safety
Does your portfolio have a margin of safety? I ask that question because the total U.S. stock market (NYSEARCA:SCHB) has been rocky over the past…
Will Stocks End the Year on a High Note?
Heading into the final trading month of the year, the U.S. stock market has history riding on its side. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA), the…
Improving Bogle’s 50/50 Portfolio
Jack Bogle has made changes inside his personal investment portfolio. In a news interview last week, the legendary indexer revealed that his 60% allocation to U.S.…
Portfolio Report Card: A $1.75 Million Account Sunk by Heavy Cost
Is the risk character of your investments compatible with you? If not, it’s a telltale sign that your investment portfolio is seriously flawed. Frequently, these risk…
Portfolio Exam: A Hyper-Aggressive $1.29 Million Portfolio with Flaws
It’s commonly and incorrectly presumed that people with large investment portfolios are smart investors. But as counterintuitive as it may sound, this false presumption is…
Does Your Portfolio Have a Margin of Safety?
Building an architecturally sound investment portfolio doesn’t happen by chance. A structurally strong and healthy portfolio is organized into three basic parts: 1) the portfolio’s core,…
Portfolio School: Put Things Where They Belong
People do the darndest things. For example, they put their investments in places where they don’t belong. This is a common problem suffered not just by retail investors, but…
