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During 2002-2004, iShares of the ten economically freest countries outperformed the index by 5.43% each year.

You can smooth your returns without any of hedge fund’s drawbacks.

Wanting to avoid regulations, Hedge funds appeal to investor’s snobbery to make it seem like a privilege.

You take all the risk, but the manager gets twenty percent of any winnings. This is not a good compensation scheme.

Hedge claims are equivalent to “All of the coins I want to tell you about came up heads.”

As Hedge funds grow in popularity, beware of following the lemmings.

Good portfolios have low expense ratios and minimal trading costs.

Currently, stockbrokers can offer the same services as Fee-Only financial planners without being accountable to the same fiduciary standards. This exemption to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 has been called the “Merrill Lynch rule.”

We are gradually becoming our grandparents.

Marketing promises and good friends often cloud the facts.

Many people are afraid of having their retirement progress assessed.

Decreasing your standard of living is the quickest path toward retirement.

“You’re fired!” can be an opportunity to work for yourself. But the best two words you might hear are yourself saying, “I quit.” Working for yourself is risky and frightening, but the financial freedom and opportunities you gain are significant.

“April is the month,” one wit noted, “when the green returns to the lawn, the trees and the Internal Revenue Service.”

Two hours and twenty minutes of every eight hour day go to pay taxes. Three minutes go toward personal savings.