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We help you make good financial decisions by tuning out the noise and focusing on just a handful of simple, core principles that have proved successful over time. Although they are simple, following them is not always easy.

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Getting started

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Personal finance

Personal finance covers not only investing, but day-to-day finances, budgeting, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and retirement.

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Retirement

Retirement is a major event in many people's lives. It is not only a lifestyle change, but a change in income and spending.

Planning for this life-changing event is important.

For US investors:

From today's featured article

Mutual funds are registered investment companies that pool investors' capital to invest in securities. Professional money managers manage mutual funds, and the corporate contributory retirement system in the U.S. uses them extensively. As of 2021, a total of 8,877 U.S. mutual funds held over 27 trillion dollars of assets, owned by forty-eight percent of American households and an estimated 108.1 million individuals.

Mutual funds offer you diversification, professional management, liquidity, and convenience. These advantages are offset by factors such as costs, fund turnover, and the consequences of organizational structure. (more...)

This week in financial history

February 3:

February 8:

  • 1971 - The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) begins trading, with median quotes for 2,500 over-the-counter securities. (Source)
  • 2007 - The Wilshire 5000 Index closed above 16,000 for the first time in history. Source: Wilshire 5000

February 9:

  • 1977 - At 1:30 a.m. the Vanguard board of directors, on a 7 - 4 vote, approved a no-load distribution plan for the Vanguard funds, thus ending load-fund distribution of the company's funds. Source: Robert Slater (1996) John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment. McGraw Hill. p.97.
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