One of the fun things we do at our meetings is have a presentation on a topic of interest to the group.  This month, member Andrew gave a presentation on what he called “Friendly Investing”.  He takes the interesting view of stocks as though they are your friends.  First you check them out a bit […]

As 2019 comes to a close, let’s take a look at the year in review and see what my cracked crystal ball has to say for 2020. As you may recall the end of 2018 started out quite scary with a large drop in the market in October, down again in November and then a […]

One of the areas of investing I’ve become involved with over the past year and a half has been an AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) special interest group that meets very close by.  Many of the AAII activities are much further away (1/2 hour to 1+ hours with traffic), so when they started a […]

This occasional review is probably a dangerous thing for me, but something I’ve wanted to do for a while.  It is dangerous because you and I will be able to read the archives and see how I did from a hindsight perspective that I do not have as I write them.  So if you’re willing […]

As I built the web pages for the Finance section of this site as part of it relaunch, I realized that I wanted to put much more into the description of how I got my financial education.  Here is a brief history of my investment education. My education really started when I was in elementary […]

If you are an investor who owns stocks in your portfolio, your company board of directors may be doing you a disservice by paying the CEO too much. According to this article in the American Association of Individual Investors website, the company returns for CEOs that get paid in the upper tiers are much less […]