Empower Financial Dashboard — one to rule them all
It’s free and shows you your whole financial picture. I love it.
Why can’t I just pick my own stocks and make the big bucks?
This is called stock picking. Investors try to pick winning companies like Apple and Telsa or some unknown startup. Here is the problem, no one who stock picks will ever beat a three-fund portfolio long term!
Investor Psychology — ignore your brain
The thing that trips investors up is their emotional response. The market isn’t the problem, our brains that evolved on the savannah are.
Revenge of the Bogleheads (that’s us!)
So it looks like a new generation of investors are catching on to our way of thinking accord to CNBC. Get rich slow.
My name is Chris Albert. I’m a freelance news magazine/documentary director of photography based in DC and I also run StudiowerksDC a commercial studio, also known as ‘the side hustle.’
Why the website? I happen to geek out on simple, sensible investing. Talking to friends and colleagues at work there was a real lack of investment and retirement knowledge. Why? Because no one teaches us. There did not seem to be an investment website dedicated to freelancers signal person businesses, so I made one.
We are going to get rich slow.