The Financial Perils of Old Age
Failing to properly plan for the costs associated with aging can have dire consequences for the retirement you envision. Larry Swedroe unpacks a resource to help investors navigate the many financial aspects of elder and long-term care.
Explaining the Disposition Effect
Larry Swedroe unpacks a study into how this tendency, called the disposition effect, operates at the asset versus the portfolio level.
Is a Million Bucks Enough to Retire?
Tim Maurer offers a simple retirement stress test and asks what is perhaps the better question: What number works for you?
The Peculiar Performance of Private Equity Buyout Funds
Larry Swedroe unpacks research that shows private equity returns are more correlated with public equity than some reported results may lead investors to conclude.
Chasing Returns Is a Hard Catch
Larry Swedroe on a study showing why performance chasing rarely succeeds.
Don’t Exclude Emerging Markets
Does the current empirical evidence still suggest there’s a significant benefit to including emerging markets stocks in a globally diversified portfolio? Larry Swedroe makes his case for the prudent investment strategy. Thirty years ago, emerging markets made up only about...
Don’t Underestimate the Role of Buybacks in Stock Returns
Larry Swedroe looks at recent research into payout policies and the long-run drivers of expected equity returns.
The Scarcity Fallacy: Is Less Really More?
Tim Maurer on why finding our path to contentment may have little to do with the dichotomy set up between the pursuit of less and the pursuit of more, scarcity versus acquisition.
The Four Horsemen of Your Portfolio
When it comes to secure retirement, today’s investors face some major hurdles. Larry Swedroe unpacks the threat, and offers some solutions to help improve financial outcomes.
Retirement: Is it Ever Too Early to Start Saving?
Tim Maurer talks retirement planning best practices with Lucy Nalpathanchil, host of WNPR's Where We Live.
