In this episode we answer emails from Katie, Sean, Glen, Anonymous and Kelly.  We discuss our matching campaign for the Father McKenna Center (rolled out in Episode 426), the BOXX ETF and the Rorschach test it presents, direct indexing, Risk Parit...

In this episode we answer emails from Pete, Kevin and Dale.  We discuss Pete's "Berry Pie" portfolio experiments on the testfolio site, the ongoing debate about the size and value factors and why it doesn't matter that much for...

In this episode we answer emails from Andy, El Yama and Paulo.  We discuss a follow up to the question on margin accounts at Interactive Brokers in Episode 424, the use of SCHD fund as a large cap value fund in a risk parity style portfolio, the m...

In this episode we answer emails from Yangon, The Value Stock Geek, and Graham.  We discuss the ins and outs of margin accounts at Interactive Brokers, some annoyances with gold ETFs and 1099s, and BTAL vs. treasury bonds.

In this episode we answer emails from Dave, Jeff and Peter.  We discuss a new risk parity ETF, ALLW, a social security claiming question and considerations, and how a listener has been misled regarding so-called dividend investing by misinterpreti...

In this episode we answer emails from Ed, Joe and Jack.  We discuss a commodities fund, BCI, some more cowbell, and Fidelity's share lending program.

In this episode we answer emails from Luc, Ellen and Andrew.  We discuss Luc's target portfolio, the process for evaluating and choosing new assets for a portfolio -- comparing why managed futures pass the test, while covered call fund and TI...

In this episode we answer emails from Anderson, Ian, FFS, and Michael.  We discuss using Roths earlier in accumulation and tax considerations, wrestling with an expensive 401k plan with limited options, and the various and sundry deficiencies of t...

In this episode we answer emails from Chris, Will and Neelix.  We discuss the basics of transitioning from accumulation to decumulation, choosing funds for accumulation from a limited selection, more transitioning questions from an alien, my lawye...

In this episode we answer emails from Jeff, Jenzo and Sam.  We discuss spending money on relationships, a 72(t) situation, what to do with an unused Coverdell, GDE (again), a nice risk parity write-up and some random musings about the history of f...