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Personal Investing Advice: You’re Probably Overlooking Opportunity Cost

Posted On October 26, 2022 By Ian

Let’s start with the disclaimer. I’m not telling you what to buy. I’m not telling you what not to buy. I am merely sharing interesting ideas that you can decide whether they have merit or not for your situation. Today, we will talk about the pros and cons of buying Continue Reading

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How To Win When A Bubble Pops? Be Captain Obvious

Posted On June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 By Ian2 Comments

Informed Tip of the Week: Check out our recent comments in Business Insider about how to make sure you have an accurate replacement value for your home. You can read further thoughts on the topic here and here. You’ve all seen the Captain Obvious commercials I’m sure. I’m not going Continue Reading

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Elon Musk: Too Big To Fail?

Posted On April 27, 2022May 11, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

Elon Musk never fails to surprise. No, I’m not talking about him buying Twitter. I’m talking about how he bought Twitter. He has made himself the first walking, talking LBO. What do I mean? While everyone focuses on how much debt he put on Twitter (a lot…the interest will likely Continue Reading

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The New Safest Trade In America: Series I Bonds

Posted On April 19, 2022April 19, 2022 By Ian

Informed Tip of the Week: If you’re looking for other investment alternatives with more growth potential, Informed will soon be launching its seed round. We will be raising money from individuals (accredited investors) and institutions. If you read this blog, you are welcome to inquire about investing. To learn more, Continue Reading

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The Safest Trade in America, Revisited

Posted On March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 By Ian

Informed Tip of the Week: To (sort of) go along with the safety theme, how about I highlight some easy home maintenance tips you can do to reduce your risk of an insurance claim. Nearly three years ago I wrote an article suggesting the safest trade out there was to Continue Reading

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The Worst Investment in South America

Posted On August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 By Ian

I got sidetracked from my best and worst investment series by the GE saga. FYI, I updated the post with some better LTC data and showed the cherry picking was even worse than I thought! Anyway, today we will talk about the fools who bought 100-year debt from Argentina. Argentina Continue Reading

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The Safest Trade In America

Posted On August 13, 2019September 30, 2019 By Ian

Last week, I wrote about one of the worst possible risk-reward decisions. This week, I will make my case for one of the best. Now, before we start, some disclosures. I may own some of the stocks I talk about. You shouldn’t take what follows as a recommendation to buy Continue Reading

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The Next Evolution In Investment Analytics

Posted On June 26, 2019July 1, 2019 By Ian

Summary:Analytics 1.0 = Find underpriced assetsAnalytics 1.1->1.9 = Keep frantically searching diminishing pool of underpriced assetsAnalytics 2.0 = Improve the quality of your own assets Most investors have no idea what they are good and bad at. They are stuck at Analytics 1.5. They need to evolve to Analytics 2.0. Continue Reading

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Could The Fed Kill the P&C Trade?

Posted On June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 By Ian

P&C Stock Outperformance P&C Insurance stocks have been one of the better performing areas in the market YTD, largely driven by excitement over improvements in pricing. Several names are up over 30% on the year. When one looks a little closer at the pattern of outperformance, it becomes apparent that Continue Reading

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Why the Uber and Lyft IPOs Failed

Posted On May 15, 2019September 30, 2019 By Ian

tl;dr Private markets distort valuations because there are only bulls setting prices Uber is down nearly 20% from its IPO with Lyft down over 30%. Someone must surely be to blame! Did the bankers give bad advice? Were the managements too greedy holding out for the best price? Did the Continue Reading

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