Chris Arnold is a reporter with NPR who has a knack for explaining the complexities of investing in simple, plain English. In the ongoing fight for greater consumer protections, NPR produced a segment that highlights the intricacies of the fiduciary rule, and approached me for my “industry insider” opinion. It was my honor to speak about the… Continue reading →

Seth Klarman is one of the few hedge fund managers praised by Warren Buffett. His Boston-based Baupost Group is famously tight-lipped and extraordinarily successful, currently managing around $30 billion. That puts him on par with the endowments of schools such as Harvard and Yale. As it happens, my business partner Scott Puritz and I were… Continue reading →

Financial advisors should always act in your best interest. However, as of now, those who handle your hard earned retirement savings are not yet obligated by law to do so. With recent renewed interest in the U.S. Department of Labor’s “fiduciary rule,” there is question of whether the rule, protecting American retirement accounts, will actually… Continue reading →

Would you rather spend your hard-earned money on coffee or your financial future? The answer may seem obvious, but it isn’t evident in a recent poll amongst millennials. In this short blog post, Food Network’s Amy Reiter details the startling results of a “coffee versus retirement” survey, which emphasizes an often talked about point – the need… Continue reading →

Jack Bogle, the visionary founder of Vanguard Group and father of index investing, has this to say about rumblings that the incoming Trump administration could kill the fiduciary rule: Don’t bet on it. Far from shrinking back, the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule protecting retirement savers — which takes full effect in April — is likely… Continue reading →

Iconic billionaire Warren Buffett is sitting in the driver’s seat of a Buick SUV, talking to the drive-through cashier at a McDonald’s. “I’ll have a Sausage McMuffin with an egg and cheese,” he tells the grinning young woman, who clearly recognizes him and spots a documentary camera operator in the passenger seat. He probably orders… Continue reading →

The 2016 election has come and gone, and now a new President sits in office. For investors, it is increasingly clear that we have a elected a person who is perfectly willing to use social media to express himself, even tweeting about specific companies. That can do a lot of crazy things to a retirement portfolio in… Continue reading →

Predicting the future is impossible. Nobody, literally nobody, knows what will happen next. Yet back on Jan. 7 of this year Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel made an observation about stocks. “I actually think we’re going to get 8% to 10% this year,” Siegel told CNBC then. “I don’t think it’s going to be all that bad.” We… Continue reading →

Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard Group and father of index investing, doesn’t see the “Trump trade” lasting forever and cautions investors to avoid chasing returns. Asked about a potential rotation from bonds to equities, Bogle agreed that the markets seemed to be embracing a potential increase in government spending under a President Trump. But… Continue reading →