I generally get caught up in March Madness and watch a number of college basketball games during the tournament. This year, we have our own March madness as our twin 6 year old grandsons have come to stay with us for two weeks. Thank goodness I am married to a German...
We lost an investing legend in January, Jack Bogle. Jack was the founder of the Vanguard Group and the man behind the first index fund. Jack revolutionized the way investors saved for the future, pioneered low cost index investing and was the little guy’s champion and...
I have always stressed in good times and in bad (and last year certainly qualified as bad) that it is imperative to have a well-diversified portfolio including stocks, bonds, real estate and private equity/venture capital. This chart, which equally weights the 10...
SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER Spending time with one’s grandchildren is always special, but Christmas is something altogether different. Decorating the Christmas tree, making gingerbread cookies for Santa, the school Christmas pageant, and then finally, mercifully, the...
My wife, Christa, was recently asked to write a foreword to a beautiful book of photographs of one of the islands in the Bahamas. Why I wasn’t asked is a mystery to me. Nevertheless, she wrote a wonderful foreword which I have included below, as well as a picture of...
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