Portfolio Diversification With Alternative Investments: Art, Farmland, Wine

With the S&P 500 close to a record-high you might wisely be thinking more about portfolio diversification. Portfolio diversification can help smooth out volatility. Further, you may be able to find investments that zig when your stocks zag. Diversifying through bonds is the most common way to gain portfolio diversification. However, with the 10-year bond […]

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The Biggest Financial Concerns Of Affluent Investors

The more money you have, ironically, the more worries you might have too. Empower, a digital wealth advisor with free financial tools, released its latest Affluent Investor report. Among other things, it highlights the biggest financial concerns of affluent investors. The biggest surprise from one of its surveys is that folks with more than $500,000

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How The Rich Invest: A Look Inside Yale Endowment’s Asset Allocation

Have you ever wondered how the rich invest? Well, look no further than seeing how the ~$41 billion Yale endowment fund invests its money. Endowments invest like many of the world’s wealthiest people and retirees. Both want income to fund their operations or lifestyles indefinitely. Both want to outperform their peers. And ultimately, both want consistently strong absolute

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The Unhealthy Desire For Prestige And Money Is Ruining Your Life

There is an unhealthy desire for prestige and money that is ruining people’s lives. At the end of all the striving, you might end up feeling empty inside. The desire for prestige and money is why we: 1) spend an outrageous sum of money on education despite it being free, 2) kill ourselves at jobs we

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Don’t Join A Startup If You Want To Get Rich: Baremetrics Case Study

When everybody seems to be getting rich but you, it’s a disconcerting feeling. However, after 22 years of living in San Francisco, the startup capital of the world, I say that if you want to get rich, don’t join a startup. Instead, invest in startups through an open venture capital fund like the Fundrise Innovation

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