My Two Cents

John Bogle is the legendary founder of Vanguard, the giant mutual fund company. He's an industry pioneer, and within the mutual fund business...

In the 1980s, companies started retreating from offering their workers traditional "defined benefit" pension plans in favor of "defined...

There still seems to be an expectation that apartment rent prices will rise this year, but I don't buy it. The supply of housing is simply too big,...

We all know money in politics is disturbing. And about the safest forecast I can make is this: The candidates for the White House will raise record...

I don't think the U.S. Court of Appeals decision striking down on March 30th the "Merrill Lynch rule" has gotten enough attention. It looks like...

Index funds are boring, right? Not quite. The index fund world is in turmoil....

The Sunday Express, a British tabloid, reported the other day that a group of Middle east investors and U.S. private equity firms had combined...

From the Alliance for Investor Education. There's a new website that offers investors easy-to-use information on where to check out financial...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the world economy was dominated by the G-7 (the major industrial nations), and large capitalization stocks flourished....

Some more thoughts on long term care insurance....