This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks.
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to a group of elementary-school teachers about their [...]

I’m in the process of consolidating all of my investment accounts at Fidelity. This isn’t because I think Fidelity is “the best”, but because I think they’re good and they’re certainly convenient. There’s a Fidelity “investor center” not far from my home. (In other words: I’m not endorsing Fidelity; I’m merely following my own advice [...]

It’s been several months since I’ve discovered a new money movie to share with you. I love these things, but I’ve exhausted most of my sources for Public Domain material. However, while browsing the Prelinger Archives again the other day, I discovered a little gem that had slipped my notice before: “What Makes Us Tick”, [...]

Knight Kiplinger is the editor-in-chief and a columnist for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, one of the “big three” money magazines. In the June issue, Kiplinger offered an investor’s manifesto, a list of twenty guiding principles for making smart investment decisions.
Kiplinger’s manifesto is a great list, effectively summarizing mainstream investment theory on a single page. I liked [...]

This is a guest post from Carl Richards at Behavior Gap.
I have a problem. In fact, I think we all have a problem:
We have been way too focused on returns, resulting in the utter destruction of our wealth.
The investment industry has been built using tools that might be appropriate for understanding investments, but are [...]

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks.
Want tax-free investment growth? Want more control over your retirement savings? Want to leave a [...]

While researching investment strategies for my retirement savings, I’ve been reading a lot of books. There are hundreds of authors offering thousands of tips for turning a small pile of gold into a big pile of gold. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell whose advice to heed.
To be honest, I find the simplest investment strategies most [...]

I read a lot of personal finance books. Most possess a certain sameness. They offer good advice, yes, but there’s nothing special about them. Perhaps that’s why I’m drawn to two specific types of financial books: narratives and histories. If a book can combine both of these elements, it’s a good bet I’m going to [...]

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks.
Imagine it’s 30 April 1989. You just came into a hundred grand. You plan on [...]

This is a guest post rom Bill Schultheis, author of The New Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life. Schultheis is an investment advisor in Kirkland, Washington. To learn more, visit his website.
What a difference a decade makes.
Ten years ago everyone was chasing the next [...]