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The Elephant’s Paycheck investment strategy for 401K rollovers is simple to understand. Invest in dividend aristocrats and allow dividend reinvestments to amplify your rewards. What are dividend …
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The Elephant's Paycheck investment strategy for 401K rollovers is simple to understand. Invest in dividend aristocrats and allow dividend reinvestments to amplify your rewards. What are dividend …
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When looking at Apple stock performance compared to Microsoft, people keep focusing on the wrong thing. They're looking at stock price and trying to infer if it'll grow more than some alternative. If …
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Well, a 200 point drop in the stock market doesn't matter to your Elephant. Let's take our sample portfolio. Our sample portfolio started about a year ago with $60,000. Our Elephant's Paycheck was …
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I woke up the other day to see Spectra Energy, one of the companies in our sample portfolio ((To get access to the sample portfolio, for now, you'll need to sign up for our free 10-part email …
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The million dollar myth, that a million dollars in the bank is "making it", seems deeply rooted in our culture. It seems a finish line of sorts. A measure of success. It is. With a million …
Be honest. When you looked at your 401K options, how did you evaluate your mutual fund selections? Wasn't past performance one of the main things you considered? Why don't you have the same …
Size isn't what matters (mostly). When most consider stock market performance, they focus on the size of the portfolio. The size of the investment. It's really not the only thing that matters. In …
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We've all heard the brokerage/financial advisor CYA disclaimer: "past performance is no guarantee of future results". I sort of prefer this quote, which I recently saw at 37 Signals: In theory …
In May 2012 my wife switched jobs, giving her an opportunity to rollover her 401K. Like many, she was (and remains) intimidated by investing. Together, we setup a small portfolio with her rollover …
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