Should I invest in the S&P 500 or in a target date index fund?
July 14, 2026
One of the questions I get most often is “Should I invest in the S&P 500 or in a target date index fund?”First, let’s understand
New Year 2026 Sale! July Sale! One of the questions I get most often is “Should I invest in the S&P 500 or in a target date index fund?”First, let’s understand
If you get a job that offers a 401k (or 403b, 457, or TSP) you’ll have an opportunity to sign up. During that sign up
Trump accounts are brand new. They just launched on July 4th, 2026. I opened one this week and wanted to share what I found. I’ll
Remember retirement isn’t an age. It’s an amount of money. Once your investments have grown to 25 times your annual spending, you are financially independent
I was inspired to make this post when I was thinking about those little “investment amount” sliders that you often see as part of the
If you have any debt, other than your mortgage, I think you should put 100% focus on paying it off before you start investing. I
Sometimes I feel bad when a young, hopeful new investor comes to me as though I’m a guru sitting atop a Himalayan mountain and they’ve
The most valuable 10 minutes of your life might be the 10 minutes where you set up an auto-investment into your Roth IRA. That one
The term “financial advisor” makes a lot of people squirm. And for good reason. Most charge in really deceptive ways, like earning a commission based
There’s been some really good journalism digging into these index rule changes on the eve of the SpaceX IPO. The most nefarious explanation looks bad.
One of the questions I get most often is “Should I invest in the S&P 500 or in a target date index fund?”First, let’s understand
If you get a job that offers a 401k (or 403b, 457, or TSP) you’ll have an opportunity to sign up. During that sign up
Trump accounts are brand new. They just launched on July 4th, 2026. I opened one this week and wanted to share what I found. I’ll
Remember retirement isn’t an age. It’s an amount of money. Once your investments have grown to 25 times your annual spending, you are financially independent
I was inspired to make this post when I was thinking about those little “investment amount” sliders that you often see as part of the
If you have any debt, other than your mortgage, I think you should put 100% focus on paying it off before you start investing. I
Sometimes I feel bad when a young, hopeful new investor comes to me as though I’m a guru sitting atop a Himalayan mountain and they’ve
The most valuable 10 minutes of your life might be the 10 minutes where you set up an auto-investment into your Roth IRA. That one
The term “financial advisor” makes a lot of people squirm. And for good reason. Most charge in really deceptive ways, like earning a commission based
There’s been some really good journalism digging into these index rule changes on the eve of the SpaceX IPO. The most nefarious explanation looks bad.
