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A Slow-Tech Approach to Tracking Spending

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Ten years ago, I tracked every penny of our family’s spending. That’s good, right? Over time, however, I lost sight of why I was doing it and eventually stopped. Recently, I decided to try it again, and I find myself having the same mental conversation every time I sit down with my receipts. “I don’t...

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Quick Take: Benefits of Buying Higher Coupon Bonds

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Q: What are the benefits of buying higher coupon bonds? A: A higher coupon or “premium” bond has a higher coupon rate than the current market interest rate and will trade above par. These bonds sell for more than 100 percent of their par value, so the dollar value is greater than the normal $1,000....

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Important Decisions: Appointing Trustees and Guardians

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by Brad Jenkins Life is hectic. Dealing with jobs, friends, family, and everything else you have on your plate contributes to that rapid pace. When you add children to the mix, it doesn’t get any easier. At some point, we run out of time to accomplish everything on our to-do list. Eventually, every one of...

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The Efficient Market Hypothesis, Fact Or Fiction? Part 4

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Today concludes our four-part series on the efficient market hypothesis. While the EMH helps us understand how markets work, in terms of investment strategy it really doesn’t matter whether markets are efficient or not. The only thing that really matters is whether you can exploit inefficiencies persistently, after the expenses of the effort. That has proven to be extremely...

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Do Dividends Lower Stock Prices?

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There are many investors who have a hard time accepting the fact that when a company pays a dividend the payment results in a permanent relatively lower price (relative to what the price would have been the dividend had not been paid), not just a lower price on the day it makes the distribution. The problem results...

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May, The Silly Season, Is Upon Us

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One of the more persistent investment myths is that the winning strategy is to sell stocks in May and wait to buy back until November. While it is true that stocks have provided greater returns from November through April than they have from May through October, since 1926 there has still been an equity risk...

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Value Premium And Distress Risk

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While there are many studies demonstrating a link between the value premium and risk, the empirical evidence draws inconsistent conclusions on whether distress risk is a systematic risk factor that is priced in the cross section of stock returns. There are studies that conclude that default risk is positively priced in the stock market, and...

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Hard To Time Outperformance

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The efficient market hypothesis asserts that financial markets are “informationally efficient”; that is, investors shouldn’t expect to consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns on a risk-adjusted basis, given the information available at the time the investment is made. However, we know that the market isn’t perfectly efficient. In fact, as I explained in my Seeking Alpha series on...

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