As of today, I am sitting at about 17% in my brokerage/retirement accounts. Why? Outperformance Much to my joy, my accounts had some fantastic performance in January. Rather than get greedy, I decided to take some off the table. I sold completely out of my Travelers (TRV) position. This stock was one of the best…
It’s been approximately six months since i wrote my article on T-bills. Since then T-bills rates have went up considerably. The six month T-bill was yielding 3.22%. Today the T-bill is yielding 5.08%. That is a whopping 58% increase! I am still purchasing short-term T-bills as my old ones mature. Here are the current T-bill…
One thing I’ve seen a lot online are people bragging about how much dividend income they have coming in or how they are beating the market. I think it is always good to keep a historical perspective. Something that’s escaping confident investors: Over the long-term, the majority of stocks underperform T-bills as an investment. A…
It’s been a bit since I’ve added any new stock positions. 2022 was largely a year of adding to my Index Funds and selling off positions that had ran too far or those I wanted to get rid of. This year I wanted to increase the yield of my portfolio slightly and add a new…
2022 turned out to be a really good year for me, not with just investing, but learning new skills. I spent a lot of time learning new digital marketing and SEO techniques. This started to help my sales towards the later half of the year. I don’t have the numbers on hand but my music…