If you’ve followed along on the blog thus far, you should understand that with investing, there is always a certain amount of risk involved. I hope I’ve made that clear across several different posts. In those previous posts, I never really delved all that deeply into what that risk is or what its relationship is… [Continue Reading]
Investing Basics
The Relationship between Stocks and Bonds
In the two previous posts, I covered what stocks are as an asset class and what bonds are as an asset class. In this post, I’ll be covering the relationship between stocks and bonds and what that means for you as an investor. To begin, I’d like to draw your attention back to two statements… [Continue Reading]
What Are Bonds?
If you read the previous post, “What Are Stocks?” and had a little bit of existing knowledge about investing, you probably expected that this post would follow it. Why might you have expected that a post on bonds would follow right after a post on stocks? It’s because frequently in investing, the two main asset… [Continue Reading]
What Are Stocks?
Over the course of the blog thus far, I’ve covered pretty much all of the preliminary information I wanted to cover before getting into investing itself. The purpose behind doing so was simple: Assuming you, the reader, were starting from square one with little (if anything) already invested and with little investing knowledge, I needed… [Continue Reading]