Petanque Pétanque is a Bocce-like game that is fun-loving, raucous and peasant-inspired with large doses of heckling the opposing team. This winner-take-all game includes bragging rights and the losing team furnishes Veuve Clicquot champagne. Below I will show you our discovery of this game and how it often relates to financial literacy. Petanque Discovery Through
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The Double-Edged Sword of Retirement Savings
How 10% Can Save You 10 Years in Retirement It’s hard to get out of my head that “10 minutes could save you 15% on your car insurance” thanks to GEICO’s never-ending cavemen commercials. Along those same lines, did you know that 10 percent could save you 10 years in retirement? Michael Kitces, whom I
Mama, Where Do Stock Returns Come From? (An Update)
The Birds and The Bees In our 2016 3rd Quarter Market Commentary, Justin wrote a wonderful “birds and bees” explanation of where stock returns come from based on Vanguard founder and investing pioneer Jack Bogle. You can find the full commentary here. The return on any stock, we concluded, is it’s Dividend Yield + Earnings Growth +
Dow 20,000 – Irrelevantly Monumental
There are two equally true sides to this story: 1) it’s irrelevant and 2) it’s monumental. It’s irrelevant Bruce Almighty If we had all been born with 7 fingers and 7 toes we would have celebrated when the Dow broke 14,000 (first in 1999, then again in 2006 and, like your friend who has celebrated