Investing & Wealth Building
The plan: dollar-cost averaging, asset allocation, automation, and behaviour in drawdowns โ how to deploy capital over a lifetime.
The Question Everyone Argues About Is Worth 3.7%
I ran the lump-sum-vs-DCA question on 150 years of US market data myself. Lump sum wins about two-thirds…
The Dividend Tax Nobody Reads About: Qualified vs Ordinary, and Where You Hold It
Qualified dividends are taxed at 0/15/20%, ordinary ones at up to 37%. What makes the difference, the 2026…
DRIP: How Dividend Reinvestment Compounds โ and When It Actually Helps
What DRIP is, how reinvested dividends buy shares that pay more dividends, why the compounding needs time, and…
Dividend Growth vs High Yield: Which Should You Own โ SCHD, VYM, and the Dividend Aristocrats
Dividend growth (SCHD) versus broad high yield (VYM): what each optimizes for, why a lower starting yield can…
Target-Date Funds Explained: Set-and-Forget Investing, Reviewed
A target-date fund is a whole portfolio in one ticker that reshapes itself as you age. How the…
Should You Invest More in a Bear Market? What the Data Says
Should you invest more when the market crashes? What the historical data says about buying bear markets โ…
Dollar-Cost Averaging: The Evidence, the Math, and the Limits
Does dollar-cost averaging work? What the research says about DCA vs lump sum, the math behind why lump…
How to Start Investing With $10 a Day: The Autopilot Plan
How to start investing with little money: a three-rule autopilot plan for $10 a day into a benchmark…
How to Build a 3-Fund Portfolio (And Why It Works)
A three-fund portfolio is US stocks, international stocks and bonds โ three index funds, each with a job.…
How to Automate Your Investing: Recurring Buys on Every Major Brokerage
Fidelity, Vanguard and Robinhood let you automate a recurring buy from $1. Schwab doesn’t for individual securities. The…