Tag: Investor education
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![How Long is this Bear Market Going to Last and Other Valid Reasons Why I Can’t Go for A Run.]()
How Long is this Bear Market Going to Last and Other Valid Reasons Why I Can’t Go for A Run.
In lieu of resolutions and all things ‘bettering yourself’ (bleh), I have seen many go-getters sprinting down the seawall like their life depends on it. Good for them, I guess. My boyfriend tells me that running is a good way to ‘clear your head’ and is ‘easy once you get going’. I’d like to formally…
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![Top 7 Tips for the First Time Investor]()
Top 7 Tips for the First Time Investor
I think academic brain power is wasted on the young. Allow me to explain. Because I have chosen a profession that is essentially just committing to doing homework on a deadline forever, I think back in total awe about how prolifically studious I was as a high-schooler and my ability to read and retain multiple…
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![How to invest when you don’t know what to do]()
How to invest when you don’t know what to do
Inflation. Deflation. Stagflation. Markets going down week after week, only to rip up higher. Headlines don’t seem to line up and so-called experts, who claim to have seen it all before, have as many different views as there are Elon Musk lawsuits. When there are too many signals and the immediate road ahead isn’t clear,…
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![There could be more pain before the market actually turns]()
There could be more pain before the market actually turns
Newsfeeds are clogged with “the bottom’s here!” narrative and we’re already seeing a significant bump in positivity in the public markets including risk-on assets like cryptocurrency, but are we out of the woods? This stream of social media ‘good news’ and bullish fervor comes as the yield curve inversion is in full swing. It might…
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![How To Start Investing: A Guide for Cool Girls Only.]()
How To Start Investing: A Guide for Cool Girls Only.
I am not writing this in real time. I wrote this a month ago, before I took a hiatus to Israel and Greece and hopefully, I have now “found myself” or something of the sort. Regardless, writing this far in advance is a sure-fire way for me to hate everything I have written. (I am…
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![PSA: It is Actually Not Okay to Not be Okay]()
PSA: It is Actually Not Okay to Not be Okay
My mother tells me that “it is okay to not be okay”. This sort of thing comforts me for a moment until I realize that this quirky little phrase can only derive from one place: there are people out there saying and behaving like it is not okay to not be okay. Or (another realization),…
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![On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time]()
On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time
Hi. It’s me. You didn’t think I was just going to stop bombarding your inbox with unsolicited financial advice and uninvited political opinion, did you? Here we are again, another January past. In less than 5 years I will be 30. I don’t know what my point is there, but it is something I keep…
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![The trouble with robo advisors]()
The trouble with robo advisors
At a party several months ago, I overheard, and was drawn into, an interesting conversation while en route to the bathroom. The conversation was about finances, naturally. A friend of mine was admonishing another of our mutual friends for a lack of diligence in his financial planning. After years of late-nights and the resulting promotions…
