Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry when it comes to the concept of achieving financial independence early in life is the very nature of the journey itself. Specifically, the length. It’s not like one can just have that epiphany and then go on to retire three or four years later. Not in most cases, anyway. So […]

It’s funny. Add just a smidgen of volatility to the stock market and people go crazy. The last few days of last week proved to be a little volatile for the stock market. Oil prices are at multi-year lows right now. Questions about global growth, China, and Greece continue to dominate headlines. But does any of […]

My, my. Feels good to write this article! Munger has said that accumulating the first $100,000 from a standing start, with no seed money, is the most difficult part of building wealth. Making the first million was the next big hurdle. To do that a person must consistently underspend his income. Getting wealthy, he explains, […]

I’ve noticed a lot of investors have been loath to invest new capital in the stock market over the last year or so in fear that a correction would occur and they’d lose money. First, what’s a correction? Investopedia defines it as the following: A reverse movement, usually negative, of at least 10% in a […]

Asset allocation by sector is an aspect of the dividend growth investing strategy that I’ve been meaning to discuss for some time now. But now that I have some time to sit down and really address this, I hope it provides you readers a ton of value. I brought this subject up very quickly when I […]

I once discussed that my Scottrade account was growing to the point to where it made sense to diversify brokerage accounts. That was June 2013. Better late than never, right?  So here we are now almost two years later and I finally opened a second brokerage account. Truth be told, I should have done this […]