If you think education is expensive try ignorance. – Derek Bok You can be comfortable or courageous, but you cannot be both. We love to read and share – here’s some notable things from the last week covering life, investing, planning, financial literacy for kids and caveman living plus a look at what we were […]
Take Chalten’s free Risk Questionnaire to receive a risk report and personal risk score. I long ago decided that horseback riding was not going to become a meaningful part of my life. Nonetheless there are others in my life that aren’t yet as ruthless about how they decide to spend their time or treat their tailbone. If I’m […]
Simplicity is not a simple thing. – Charles Chaplin The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money. – Jowett We love to read and share – here’s some notable things from the last week covering life, investing, planning, financial literacy for kids and caveman living […]
There are risks in life worth taking and there are risks that aren’t worth taking. Inevitably some risk is involved if you want to attain the greatest rewards. Moreover, taking risk may lead you to outcomes you couldn’t previously imagine or seem possible. Risk is exciting, it gets the blood pumping and invigorates our daily life. […]
I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done. – Lucille Ball A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright We love to read and share – here’s some notable things from […]
Carl Richards has a great column in the New York times called Sketch Guy where he boils complex financial issues down to simple concepts sketched on the back of a cocktail napkin. We recently saw Carl Richards speak and he talked about how people benefit from working with a financial planner. Here is our attempt at a Carl […]
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing – it was here first. – Mark Twain You can’t make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt…..and who wants to make buttprints? – Anonymous We love to read and share – here’s some notable things […]
What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of situation would you like?….What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?” – Alan Watts There is an existential angst that plagues our generation. I was speaking to a friend today and he […]
The core principle of an evidence-based approach is that risk and return are related. The remaining principles of the evidence based approach flow from this core principle. In the fourth installment of our series on Evidence-Based Investing we presented some of the evidence which demonstrates that asset allocation should be based on risk tolerance and disciplined rebalancing. […]
The core principle of an evidence-based approach is that risk and return are related. The remaining principles of the evidence based approach flow from this core principle. In the third installment of our series on Evidence-Based Investing we presented some of the evidence which demonstrates that investors should diversify their investment holdings. In this fourth installment we focus […]