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Retirement Planning Mistake #3

October 28, 2013 By Lowell Herr

  This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950 000 kilometres per hour — fast enough

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning Mistake #4

October 29, 2013 By Lowell Herr

  Investors lack knowledge about the importance of asset allocation.  Investors do not educate themselves as to the importance of asset allocation, and what asset classes tend to perform better than others over the long-run. I need not go into the importance of overcoming this mistake as I

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Critical Material, Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning Mistake #5

October 30, 2013 By Lowell Herr

This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950 000 kilometres per hour — fast enough to

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Passive vs. Active, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Critical Material, Retirement Planning

Why I Use ETFs Instead of Individual Stocks

November 21, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Approximately 80% of all investors use individual stocks to populate their portfolios.  So why buck the majority trend and use index ETFs?  That is a reasonable question that merits an answer.  In fact, several answers.  Confession:  I do select a few individual stocks for

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Why Use Index Funds?

December 12, 2013 By Lowell Herr

The Power of Index Investing Why are 80% to 85% of all investors wrong?  Could it be the power of advertising and greed?  What do I mean when I say a high percentage of investors have it all wrong?  Simple!  The majority of investors

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material Tagged With: Beginning Invesors, Index Investing

Strategic Asset Allocation: A Starting Point For Portfolio Construction

December 29, 2013 By Lowell Herr

Much is made of the importance of asset allocation here at ITA Wealth Management.  Long-time readers are familiar with the general layout of the portfolios and new readers will find more information by doing a search for “Dashboard.”  Not all portfolios tracked on this blog use the seventeen asset allocation

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Portfolio Construction Tagged With: Portfolio Construction

Useful Website: Transparent Investing

March 10, 2014 By Lowell Herr

Last evening I was made aware of a useful and interesting website titled, Transparent Investing.  Even if you lose track of this blog you will be able to find this site by going to the ITA Blog tab, and then scrolling down to Bookmarks.  There you will find the

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Beginner Advice: Getting Started With Portfolio Construction

March 15, 2014 By Lowell Herr

Several days* ago a friend wrote and asked about setting up a portfolio where $500 would be deposited every month.  What advice would I pass on to such an investor?  The first bit

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, ITA Portfolios, Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Beginning Investors, Portfolio Construction

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