Investing in Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds


We have a lot riding on our investments. For most of us, investing returns will dictate when we retire and how we will live during retirement. The performance of our investments also impact our children`s education and overall financial security. All of which is to say that mutual fund and stock investing is of critical importance to most of us. While I am not an investing professional, I have managed my family`s investments for more than 15 years. Through bear and bull markets, I have learned many lessons the hard (and expensive) way, and write about them here.

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Are Mutual Funds for the Poor?

by DR

The Wealth Report, a WSJ blog written by Robert Frank, recently posted an interesting article entitled How the Rich Invest. The upshot of the article is that the rich don’t invest in mutual funds or ETFs. A survey conducted by Prince & Associates, Inc. found that for those investing more than $20 million, [...]

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The Year was 1924, the Man was Ed Leffler

by DR

The Dough Roller regularly looks Back to the Future because “even if the time for action has gone by, the time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand for those who are wise.”–Demosthenes (384-322 BCE)
I read an article the other day about closed-end mutual funds by Fire

Finance entitled, Closed End Mutual Funds–Should [...]

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Has Rich Dad Been Reading The Dough Roller?

by DR

One week ago, I wrote an article (Rich Dad Gives Lousy Advice) that was critical of Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki’s comparison of mutual funds to playing the lottery. I’ve grown more and more concerned with the “advice” he’s been dishing out on Yahoo! Finance lately. Frankly, it’s dangerous, and I [...]

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Rich Dad Gives Lousy Advice

by DR

I read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, years ago. It’s a decent book, although a bit gimmicky. His discussion of the relationship between the balance sheet and the income statement is good. Basically, you want [...]

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Real Estate or Stocks: Which is the better investment?

by DR

There have been several recent articles discussing whether real estate or stocks is the better investment. The subject came up in a round about way at Get Rich Slowly, which you can read here. The comments are interesting, so make sure to check them out. Real Estate Mega Book addressed the topic more [...]

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