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  • June 25, 2025

    Judging something while it’s massively improving I have a toddler and he plays basketball. But I can beat him really easily. I can steal the ball from him or block his shot whenever I want [...]

  • May 1, 2025

    Below is a 30 year chart of the S&P 500 starting in 1995. The annual rate of return was 10.5% for this period, much higher than any safe return offered by bonds or even real [...]

  • April 3, 2025

    One problem that individual investors have–that they may not know they have–is that they don't know how well or how poorly they're doing. When you're a professional investor, you buy a portfolio accounting system that [...]

  • March 25, 2025

    Investing in the S&P 500 Index is called passive investing.  A big part of what makes the S&P 500 difficult to beat is the fact that it’s passive.* It doesn’t think anything. It doesn’t feel [...]

  • March 19, 2025

    And he's yelling numbers:$5 million$5.1 million$4 millionHe's making a bid to buy your house.And worse, he's manic depressive, one day X another day YNothing changes about your house day to day.Same bedrooms, same paint job, [...]

  • February 20, 2025

    I heard this statement recently, although it has been stated many times in many different ways.Here's what I think: Most professionals aren't trying to beat the market. They are trying to further their career and [...]

  • January 16, 2025

    In high school, I was the debate moderator. It was a lot of fun and very intellectually stimulating. Each week, I got to pick the topic, who would make the pro and con arguments, who [...]

  • January 15, 2025

    Thank you Earlier this month, we learned that Dock Street has been named one of Newsweek's Top Financial Advisory Firms for 2025. This recognition is wonderful and important, but what it really has done is [...]

  • January 9, 2025

    "It turns out it's just really hard work" - The Nvidia WayI read Reentry by Eric Berger and The Nvidia Way by Tae Kim between Christmas and New Years. What a kick start for the [...]

  • January 1, 2025

    Most of the discussion around investing is either negative & fear-based, or it's just boring. The power of long-term investing is to grow your assets to a level that you didn't even think was possible, [...]