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Feature Article #1

Guest Article: DSC Index Funds

This is a another guest article by Jim Stark. Jim Stark is a pseudonym for a practicing Canadian financial advisor.
Why are there no DSC Index Funds?  On one hand, pretty much any advisor knows that there is no such thing as a DSC index fund and why that is so.  On the other hand, many [...]

Jim Stark | February 8th, 2010 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Money Making Decluttering

Designer extraordinaire, and guest author Daniela Garritano returns. If you would like to secure her services, don’t be afraid to email her by clicking here. Take it away D…

Happy New Year everyone!

Today’s class is all about becoming a de-clutter bug! Now, I don’t know about you, but every year after the holidays, I somehow [...]

Daniela | February 3rd, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Research or Marketing Gimmick?

This is a another guest article by Jim Stark. Jim Stark is a pseudonym for a practicing Canadian financial advisor.
So I hopped on to my computer one morning and typed in the phrase “scientific method” into my search engine to see what came up. Click here for the  definition that our friends at Wikipedia use. [...]

Jim Stark | February 2nd, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

Severing The Link Between Price And Weight Part IV

Last post on this topic (at least for a while). Click on the following links for Part I, Part II, and Part III.
The final thoughts I wanted to share with you about this refer to the assumptions under which market cap-weighting an index suffers a drag when linking portfolio weight to price. We have already [...]

Preet | February 1st, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Hedge Fund Gating

A hedge fund can decide to suspend the redemption rights of investors, usually whenever it feels it is necessary, which means you won’t be able to get your money out until a later date. The hedge fund would be considered to be “gated” at this point.
Why would they do this? It is a provision in [...]

Preet | January 31st, 2010 | Continued

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About this Site

Welcome to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com – a personal finance weblog (or blog for short). If you are new to the world of blogs, let me explain what a blog is: it is an interactive website that is part soap-box, part journal. I write a new article or post about 5 times per week. Sometimes the articles will [...]

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A Lap Of The Blogs

If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” [...]

4Feb2010 | Preet | 7 comments | Continued
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A Lap Of The Blogs

If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” [...]

28Jan2010 | Preet | 5 comments | Continued
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Severing The Link Between Price And Weight Part III

Continuing from Part I and Part II…
Actually, tonight I`m going to share some thoughts that struck me in the shower this morning when I was thinking about inverse cap-weighting a slice of the market (as reader Jordan had suggested to avoid market capacity constraints). Another reason this won`t work in practice is that you are [...]

27Jan2010 | Preet | 1 comment | Continued
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Severing The Link Between Price and Weight Part II

In the first part of this series we discussed the impracticality of inverse cap weighting (also note Michael James’ comments at the bottom of that post.) In this part we will look at what needs to be done to sever the link between price and weight so as to avoid overweighting overvalued stocks and underweighting [...]

26Jan2010 | Preet | 1 comment | Continued
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Severing The Link Between Price and Weight Part I

In a recent post about market-cap weighted fixed income indices, it was noted by reader Xenko that one way to overcome overweighting overvalued companies and underweighting undervalued companies (counter to what a rational investor would desire) could be to inversely weight constituents of an index. While the original post was about fixed income indices, I’m [...]

25Jan2010 | Preet | 15 comments | Continued
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Warren Buffett Exists Because He Has To Exist?

People point to Warren Buffett as proof for how and why active stock picking works, but they don’t understand that it might just be that he has to exist.
Click here for a little primer on Warren Buffet if you are not familiar with him.
The argument here is that his performance is nothing more than a [...]

24Jan2010 | Preet | 8 comments | Continued
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Health Care Bill in Trouble?

Recently, there was a surprise Republican win in the senate election for the state of Massachusetts by Scott Brown. This victory means that the filibuster-proof senate the Democrats enjoyed is no-longer. Until Brown’s win, the Democrats had enough votes to prevent Republican lawmakers from proposing endless amendments (many of which would be trivial) in an [...]

23Jan2010 | Preet | 1 comment | Continued
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A Lap Of The Blogs

If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” [...]

21Jan2010 | Preet | 3 comments | Continued
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Part 3 of 3 with the Big Cheese

Some housekeeping items before getting underway:
1. I look forward to meeting everyone Thursday night for the Tweet Up organized by ING. You might be able to follow along by searching #INGMandT on twitter. Event starts shortly after 6pm…
2. I’ve already contacted the winner of the Bourne Trilogy Giveaway and the winner was Pat. Congratulations to [...]

20Jan2010 | Preet | 5 comments | Continued
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Efficient Market Hypothesis

Regular reader Jordan mentioned he was interested in my personal opinion on what is known as EMH, or Efficient Market Hypothesis. From a 30,000 foot perspective, EMH basically means that the market is efficient enough that it is very hard to outsmart. It doesn’t preclude the notion that people can beat the market, but that [...]

19Jan2010 | Preet | 3 comments | Continued
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