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Putting Financial Science to Work
May 31st, 2016

This whitepaper from Dimensional Fund Advisors offers some interesting insight into the performance of various investments over time—and the futility of speculation. Among other points, you might be surprised at the extent to which the relative performance among stocks depends on company size...

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What Business Does a Financial Advisor Have in Telling Me How to Choose My Friends?
April 29th, 2016

It’s the last of seven strategies in Pay Yourself First: A Financial Guide for Doctors Entering Practice:

“Choose your friends wisely. Remember, the...

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Functional Wealth
March 31st, 2016

Do you know the difference between a traditional and a functional balance sheet? This excerpt from Changing Outcomes makes the important distinction.

One of the hottest areas of medicine right...

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The Challenge of Higher Income
February 29th, 2016

There are tons of articles about the retirement readiness of Americans in general. What is much more rarely discussed is the retirement readiness of high income earners.

This reflects the fact that 6-figure earners represent a smaller segment of workers overall. But it also...

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Photo Gallery: Waiting for Health
January 15th, 2016

Today I ran across this gallery of powerful images, meant to draw attention to the world's medically underserved.

The Waiting for Health Project strives to "break through the...

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3 Tips For Finding Great Reads Fast
October 30th, 2015

I’m an avid reader, and I try to remember, as Stephen King suggests in his book On Writing, that reading...

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