common sense for the amateur retirement investor

A stream of consciousness on my attempts to understand the world of investing from the standpoint of a reasonably intelligent, highly curious, doggedly persistent, but also somewhat lazy amateur investor.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

What's new?

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Well, what IS new, after all? I'm retired is what's new, mostly. After a long interval of looking, applying, interviewing and tryi...

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Time marches on...

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It is November 10, 2022; two days past the national mid-term election, with a few outstanding races still undecided as the last ballots ar...

Monday, November 8, 2021

Yet another pivot, but no change in overall goals.

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So, I did it. I recalled that account from the advisor who took a walkabout from the service I wanted him to provide. I sat on the cash f...

Sunday, July 25, 2021

I'm taking the plunge, hiring myself...

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So; Another few weeks of deep reflection have yielded some movement in the retirement investing arena. I'm moving back to personally man...

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Courage, Change and other weighty concepts

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There are times and events in one's life that call forth the need for courage. Often, something has changed, is about to change, and a ...

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Independence Day?

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It's July 4; Thankfully, for whatever reason, I'm not hearing any noise yet to suggest to me or my hounds that random explosions c...

Saturday, June 12, 2021

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Here we are, already at mid-year, a short 9 days from the official start of summer. I have been "awake" for 8 months, anchored mo...

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amateur investor: I was driven to learn about investing as I saw the effects of the "lost decade" on my potential retirement security. My full service broker didn't satisfy my need to understand how to thrive in hard times and took thousands in brokerage fees to earn me almost nothing. Eventually, I got up the courage to divorce myself from the "experts" and trust myself to make decisions I could live with. Like others, I've made some big mistakes, but on the balance I'm doing pretty well growing my retirement portfolio, and I'm quite certain that I have more interest in the success of my efforts than anyone else possibly could.

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