DAA is a core portfolio strategy that’s designed to help SMI readers share in some of a bull market’s gains, while minimizing (or even preventing) losses during bear markets. The strategy involves using exchange-traded
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Sound Mind Investing's currently recommended Sector Rotation fund has continued to rise in July, bringing its total gain to 20.4% in only four months (through last night's close). As a reference point, the Wilshire 5000 is
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If you read the popular personal finance press, you’d think that mutual fund investing comes down to a choice between index funds and actively managed funds.
Those who favor indexing love to point out how few actively
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This post is well outside our usual scope, but I'm going ahead with it in part because I'm hoping you can help me.
Most of you are likely aware of the intense persecution our Christian brothers and sisters are currently
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Roughly a month ago, Austin mentioned John Hussman in a post titled The Risks of Investing Based on Market Expectations. I was reminded of this post when I came across Hussman's latest commentary today, in which he states
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Our most aggressive core strategy, Fund Upgrading is a “momentum” strategy premised on the idea that recent past performance tends to persist. The strategy has you diversify your portfolio across five stock fund “risk
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In this recurring column, we take a look back at how the markets and SMI's investing strategies performed in the quarter recently completed.
On the surface, the second quarter seemed like a routine win for both stocks and
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For many years, popular personal finance teaching, especially in churches, has steered people away from credit cards and toward debit cards. But recent credit and debit card data breaches, such as the massive one
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Today I have a very interesting and informative article from the New York Times that first appeared in 2011. Don't let the fact that it's three years old put you off—the author's observations on the human side of investing
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You probably saw the headlines, maybe even read the articles. During her recent book tour, Hillary Clinton made a couple of comments that did not go over well. When she and President Clinton left the White House in 2000,
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