Along with getting started early, one of the most successful strategies for accomplishing a secure retirement is planning ahead for it.
The Bogleheads are here to help guide your way.
It was these experienced, knowledgeable and altruistic investors from the Bogleheads (formerly Vanguard Diehards) forum who first helped guide me on my “quest to conquer the markets” [...]
I just added another personal contribution into my Vanguard 529-Plan. But, it wasn’t because I really wanted to contribute. Let me explain.
I originally started my 529-Plan about 5-6 years ago with an initial minimum $250.00 contribution in the Nevada Upromise College Fund 529-Plan, in order to take advantage of the Upromise rewards program. Over [...]
From The Vanguard Group YouTube website:
Is the economy on the road to recovery? Is the worst behind us?
In his latest economic outlook, Joseph H. Davis, Ph.D., Vanguard’s chief economist, explains why the economy may be stabilizing and what a recovery might look like.
The Vanguard Group just posted a new video on their YouTube site: How to improve your after-tax returns. You can watch it below.
Learn the benefits of tax-efficient investing in this Vanguard® Plain Talk on Investing™ video. Joel Dickson of Vanguard’s Quantitative Equity Group explains how you can help your bottom line by maximizing contributions to [...]
In October and November 2008, I moved my entire retirement portfolio and donor-advised fund from a 100% cash position, back into the stock market after it crashed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to move my 529-plan portfolio due to the once-yearly exchange rules.
So today, after being eligible at the start of 2009, I moved my entire [...]
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Bonds And Interest Rates
The Vanguard Group has posted a interesting article in their Insights section on something of concern to bond market investors – the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates.
As excerpted from Bonds and rates: The reality behind the headlines:
Moves in interest rates are notoriously hard to predict, but that hasn’t stopped many market observers [...]