I hate change.  When Schwab acquired TD Ameritrade where I had my brokerage account, I knew at some point I would have to use the Schwab platform.  Well it happened a month and a half ago.  I am not thrilled by Schwab but it’s not as bad as I feared.  Anyone go through this?

What is the general opinion of TIPS in this current environment ?

Target date funds (TDFs) have similar risk until they approach their target date, which is intended to be your retirement date — typically age 65.  Risk at the target date ranges from 20% risky assets to 90% risky assets, with most in the 90% group. There are 2 groups — safe and risky.
So what is the “right” level of risk for those near retirement? Academics have addressed this question extensively, and their answer is “very safe”,

First a question and then the backstory.
Mid-60’s and nearing retirement with 80% domestic allocation of stocks (60% domestic/40% international) in tech heavy QQQ. Sold 20% of my shares yesterday, and now have $200k+ to reinvest. Tax basis is 13% of the current market price. Long term capital gain rate of 15% applies, plus 3.8% NIIT. Gain is $192.5k.
How would you reinvest the sales proceeds to slowly sell off this concentrated QQQ position in a taxable account?

I have a small employer that I have set up with a Simple IRA directly with Vanguard.  Now Vanguard is farming out their Simple and 401K business to a firm called Ascensus.  We are going to move the Simple business to Fidelity. The employees tend to not take a detailed understanding of finance and we look for simple fund of funds approach.  I have always been a fan of FBALX Fidelity and retirement date funds are always a choice.

In recent weeks, I’ve been asked by several friends if and by how much am I invested in NVDIA. Well, overall I have about a 5% position, similar to that of the broadest market index funds. The typical response is, “Is that all? Why not more?” Many of them have devoted anywhere from 20-50% of their savings to the stock and are blithely delighting in their wisdom. Of course, the answer depends on very many factors—age,

I am keen to hear from readers, but my thinking on this subject has changed recently. (Hint: I think owning a 100% stock portfolio makes a lot of sense.)

BACK IN 2021, Keith Gill wasn’t well known. A video game enthusiast, he liked to spend time in his basement, day-trading and making videos. But with his online persona, Roaring Kitty, Gill drew a following that reached into the millions. He used that platform to direct attention to the shares of video game retailer GameStop, which was nearing insolvency. 

Gill’s videos drew enough attention in 2021 to cause a “short squeeze” in GameStop shares. The result: At least one hedge fund,

AS THE SAYING GOES, “Never ask a barber if it’s time for a haircut.”

This isn’t to suggest that barbers lack integrity. Rather, the point is that—when faced with a question with no definitive answer—business people often offer an answer that reflects their own best interest. For a barber, it’s always a good time for a haircut. The barber is neither wrong nor correct. It’s a judgment call. But the barber is undoubtedly invested in his opinion,

ARE HEDGE FUNDS a good investment? To answer this question, let’s take a look at three well-known funds. The first is Renaissance Technologies.
Renaissance was founded in 1982 by academic James Simons, who’d been chair of the math department at Stony Brook University and, before that, a code-breaker for the U.S. military. Because he didn’t have a background in finance, Simons instead relied on mathematics, developing the first purely computer-driven trading system.
The result: As his biographer put it,

WHEN I WAS A KID, my father would take me trout fishing at the many small lakes of California’s Eastern Sierra mountains. We’d usually “fish off the bottom” using a wad of floating bait attached to a weighted line. We’d then sit on a rock or in our little rowboat, and wait for a fish to come along and take the bait.

It seemed to me that some mornings we waited an awful long time.

PEOPLE DEBATE JUST about everything in personal finance. Among these arguments: how best to measure risk. Partisans on this topic tend to fall into one of two camps.
In the first group are those who believe risk can be distilled down to a single number. For these folks, the most common numerical yardstick is portfolio volatility—that is, the degree to which a portfolio’s price bounces around from year to year. Portfolios exhibiting lower volatility are deemed safer.

I’VE NEVER BEEN MUCH of a collector. As a kid, I tried collecting comic books for a short time. I found that, after I read them, I had little use for them. I stored the comic books in an open box in my closet, where their translucent sleeves attracted a thick blanket of dust but little interest.
Later in life, I started a small wine collection. I didn’t get too far. It turns out I drank the wine at a rate far quicker than I acquired new vintages.

THOSE WHO REGULARLY read posts on Bogleheads.org—and I’m guessing a good chunk of HumbleDollar readers do—know that the Bogleheads’ philosophy is to:

Never time the markets.
Buy only broad-market index funds via either mutual funds or exchange-traded funds.
Invest 25% to 75% of a portfolio in stocks using such funds, with the rest in bonds, and thereafter rebalance as needed. How big a percentage should you put in stocks? That’s based on risk tolerance.

IN THE INVESTMENT world, there’s no shortage of data. But how useful is all that data? To help get to an answer, let’s consider four questions:
1. When the economy is strong, is that good for stocks? The simple answer is “yes.” According to textbook finance, the value of any company should represent the sum total of its future profits. When the economy is strong and profits are higher, that should be good for stocks.