A topic of intense debate is about what’s the best age to claim Social Security. Should people do it as soon as possible after reaching age 62, or wait until they get closer to 70? Alex and Wade will look at arguments on both sides of the debate and …
Households struggle with making right the Social Security claiming decisions. But the differences between good and bad decisions can add up to more than $100,000 in missed benefits over the lifetime of the household. To help everyone be on the right …
Now that Wade, Alex, and Bob have talked (extensively) about how not to invest, we want to be a little more upbeat. On this week’s episode, we want to take a closer look at some of the things that do work – and what that tells you about how to constr…
In the episode, Wade and Alex discuss Wade’s bestselling book- the 2nd Edition of the Retirement Planning Guidebook, and how it sets an orderly foundation of all the questions you need to ask yourself as you ready yourself for the next chapter in you…
On this week’s episode, Wade, Alex, and Bob are joined by Weston Wellington, Vice President of Investment Strategy at Dimensional Fund Advisors, to discuss how to think about the big picture of investing. When we talk about investing it’s very easy t…
In this episode, Wade, Alex, and Bob take a look at the ultimate test of whether someone can beat the market – Can professional money managers actually beat the market? That’s their job, so they should be doing something, right? Well, apparently not….
This week Wade, Alex, and Bob talk about the third way of active management – Market Timing. Grabbing elements of both Technical and Fundamental Analysis, Market Timing is often the mushy middle of active management. We’ll talk about just what this m…
On this episode, Wade, Alex, and Bob discuss the other major approach to active management – Fundamental Analysis. Unlike Technical Analysis, there actually is some value in Fundamental Analysis. It’s just that the people doing the Fundamental Analys…
On this episode, Wade, Alex, and Bob talk about one of the major approaches to active management – Technical Analysis. Technical Analysis appeals to a lot of people (especially in the financial media – there’s a lot of really interesting charts), but…
In this episode, Bob French returns to discuss with Wade and Alex another fundamental question – why do we invest? What’s the point of putting our savings at risk? Just like for companies, the financial markets are tools that we can use to prepare fo…
