Financial Articles by Allan Roth
Click link below for a chronological listing and summaries of some of my recent articles in AARP, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Barron’s, Advisor Perspectives, Financial Planning Magazine and others:
Financial articles by Allan Roth
Other articles:
- Rethinking Equity Diversification
- Advisors Show What not to do
- Earn more with Credit Unions
- Defined Outcome ETFs
- Grading the Top ETFs
- What I Learned in B. School that was Dead Wrong
- Complaining to Right a Wrong and Get What You Paid For
- Why I Bought a Gambling ETF
- My Practice – 10 Things I Did Right and Wrong
- 5 Costly Things We Think We Know
- 6 Steps to Protect your Money From Cognitive Decline
- CFP Board Abandons Mission to Benefit the Public
- Noise is Killing Your Investment Returns
- 5 Ways to Earn More with Less risk
- 8 Great Bond Misconceptions
- Two Shockers from DFA
- Vanguard Systems and Service Collapsing?
- Avoiding Alpha – the Secret to Investing
- Bogleheads Experts Panel
- The Case for Emerging Markets
- Bitcoin Bubble? Don’t be so Sure!
- My Top ETFs for 2021
- Stocks that Drove 2020’s 21% Return
- Most Valuable Stocks – See 40 Years in 3 Minutes
- 2020’s Thrilling Ride
- 5 Advanced Tax Strategies I Use with Clients
- 500,004 Reasons I’m Not Buying Gold
- Portfolio and Politics – What to do Now
- 7 Factors to Decide on Roth Conversions
- Why the COVID Crash Led to a Market High
- Income Strategies to Avoid
- Cleaning Up Financial Clutter for Profit
- Will Vanguard Abandon Mutual Funds?
- Don’t Own a Top Performing ETF
- Comparing the Three Bears
- ETFs That Worked in the COVID Crash
- Assessing Long-term Care Insurance
- Fisher on Why 100% Stocks are Safe
- Investing – Your Surprising Odds
- Predictions and Convictions
- Vanguard Without Jack Bogle
- Whitecoat Investor – Summary of My Views
- Probabilities and Consequences
- Mechanics of Tax-free Conversion to ETFs
- 6 Easy Ways to Save Thousands $
- My Tribute to John C. Bogle
- 10 Tactless Things I tell Clients
- 5 Steps to Better Financial Decisions
Nearly two decades old- some of my early thinking on investing and finance as I began to write.
- Final Investment Advice – Farwell CSBJ Column
- Second Grader Portfolio Revisited
- Bad Books Make Good Reading
- Let Your Inner Gambler Out – Fun with Investing
- My Colonoscopy and Healthcare
- 2nd Grader Portfolio vs. Wall Street
- Odds of Investing
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Financial Gurus
- Building Wealth With Insurance
- Get Real!
- Beating The Market
- AAII 3/13/07 – Guarantee Top Performance
- A Random Walk Down Behavioral Finance
Favorite Quotes
“You get what you don’t pay for.”
– John C. Bogle, Founder The Vanguard Group
“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.”
– John Allen Paulos, author of A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (quote
regarding index investing)
“The best thing you can do as an investor or a gambler, is to know the odds
of the game you’re playing–because not knowing them will cost you.”
– Mathew Emmert, Motley Fool
“How could I have been so mistaken as to have trusted the experts?”
– John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs and, I suspect, many investors after
realizing their expert advisors got rich while they underperformed the
market.
