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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

It doesnt matter if it is Nvidia, Bitcoin, founders stock, or an employee stock option purchase plan (ESOP), sometimes the sheer size of a windfall is paralyzing. Manage a Windfall : What should you do when you are sitting on enormous, life-changing wealth? All of these strategies have been money-losers this century.

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Can You Live Off Dividends In Retirement?

Darrow Wealth Management

Before you can evaluate stocks or bonds to invest in, you’ll need to develop the metrics you plan to use in the analysis. Simulated portfolio income using historical dividends Imagine you invested $1,000,000 on the last day of 2004. Half went into the S&P 500 (SPY) and half into US Aggregate Bonds (AGG). Source: J.P.

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How Much Do You Really Know About Stock Market Indexes?

Yardley Wealth Management

This made Nasdaq more appealing to startups and other fledgling businesses, including high-tech startups like Intel in 1971, Apple in 1980, and Google in 2004. It ranks second only to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in total market capitalization. 14 The Nasdaq Composite is a capitalization-weighted index.

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The Dumbest Trade You Can Make?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I wrote an article for Motley Fool in May of 2004 saying I didn't want to own the stock and spelled out why. The article shows being updated in 2016 but not by me, the URL has the 2004 time stamp. I guess it could be a theme but is also allowed for avoiding heavy exposure to domestic pharma. 21 years later and it's down?

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Stagflation Is Coming. All-Weather?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In 2003 the SPY ETF was up 28%, up 10% in 2004 and 15% in 2006 which is why there is a decent weighting to equities. Portfolio 3 is sort of close to what we blog about regularly. We had a lost decade from 2000-2009 but there were several years that stocks went up kind of lot.

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Is Gen Z Out of Luck Financially?

A Wealth of Common Sense

1For context, I graduated in 2004 with ~$25k in student loans, which is around $42k in current dollars. If I were the finance czar, my plan would be to cancel interest on stu. We also covered questions about healthy corrections, a dating budget, balanced portfolios and investing in stocks at all-time highs.

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Artificial Intelligence in Asset and Wealth Management

Wealth Management

Resonant Capital Merges with Tax, Accounting Firm QBCo by Alex Ortolani Jul 18, 2025 1 Min Read SEC Chair Paul Atkins Alternative Investments SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully by Nicola M. Concept of digital social marketing.