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• Issue 97
• December 22, 2011
• Alpha Bits or Lucky Charms?
• Meir Statman
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• Issue 96
• October 20, 2011
• Pension-Gate
• David Swensen
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• Issue 95
• September 23, 2011
• Up and Down, Down and Up
• Warren Buffett
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• Issue 94
• September 09, 2011
• A Gross Mistake
• Bill Gross
• Step 4

• Issue 93
• August 23, 2011
• Celebrate the Price
• Sir John Templeton
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• Issue 92
• August 05, 2011
• A Special Message From IFA
• Index Funds Advisors
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• Issue 91
• July 28, 2011
• The Never-Ending Pursuit of Alpha
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 90
• May 09, 2011
• IFA Celebrates 1,000 Months of Data
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 89
• April 01, 2011
• Wise Beyond Your Years
• Rod Stewart
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• Issue 88
• March 14, 2011
• Fools and Children
• Rabbi Yohanan ben Nappaha
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• Issue 87
• February 11, 2011
• The Big Story Behind Small Stocks
• Katie Benner, Scott Cendrowski, and Mina Kimes
• Step 3
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• Issue 86
• January 19, 2011
• Fortune Kookie
• Anonymous Fortune magazine writer
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• Issue 85
• January 13, 2011
• Fool Me Twice?
• Niels Bohr
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• Issue 84
• December 06, 2010
• Who Profits if Markets Are Inefficient?
• Meir Statman
• Step 3
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• Issue 83
• September 24, 2010
• The Role of Randomness & the Goal of Persistence
• Charles D. Ellis
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• Issue 82
• September 10, 2010
• Proper Benchmarking and Alpha
• Jack Meyer
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• Issue 81
• August 30, 2010
• Commodity ETFs Revisited
• Peter Robison, Asjylyn Loder, and Alan Bjerga
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• Issue 80
• August 17, 2010
• Resisting the Siren Songs
• Robert Arnott
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• Issue 79
• July 29, 2010
• Upton Sinclair's Insight for Improving Your 401(k) Returns
• Upton Sinclair
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• Issue 78
• July 15, 2010
• Grading Your Employer’s 401k Plan
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 77
• June 15, 2010
• Can You Afford Sophistication?
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 76
• May 13, 2010
• Black Swans, Fat Tails and Your Money
• Eugene Fama
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• Issue 75
• April 28, 2010
• Who Should You Trust?
• Knut A. Rostad
• Step 12
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• Issue 74
• April 22, 2010
• I.R.S.: Investment Returns Sucker
• John Bogle
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• Issue 73
• April 01, 2010
• Only Fools Rush In…and Out
• Jim Wiandt
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• Issue 72
• March 15, 2010
• One Year Later: Lessons from the Fall
• Mark Hulbert
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• Issue 71
• March 01, 2010
• Sweet Surrender
• Paul Samuelson
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• Issue 70
• February 12, 2010
• Super Nova to Black Hole
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 69
• February 01, 2010
• Professional Advisors Prove Their Worth in 401(k) Plans
• Christopher L. Jones
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• Issue 68
• January 22, 2010
• Is Timing with ETFs a Good Idea?
• Harry F. Banks
• Step 4

• Issue 67
• January 08, 2010
• All that Glitters is Not Gold
• Sherlock Holmes
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• Issue 66
• December 22, 2009
• The Value of the Right Advisor
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 65
• December 04, 2009
• From Frying Pan to Fire
• Absence of Value
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• Issue 64
• November 23, 2009
• Paying for Pay to Play
• John C. Bogle
• Step 7
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• Issue 63
• October 26, 2009
• The Case of the Fallen Fiduciary
• Mark Twain
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• Issue 62
• October 02, 2009
• False Discoveries of the Elusive Alpha
• David F. Swensen
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• Issue 61
• September 11, 2009
• Active Management Folly Revealed
• Dan Solin
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• Issue 60
• September 04, 2009
• IFA's Position Statement on Investing
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 59
• September 03, 2009
• Probability in Motion
• Warren Weaver
• Step 8

• Issue 58
• July 09, 2009
• Oops, He Did It Again!
• Robert Soros
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• Issue 57
• June 01, 2009
• Socialism, So What?
• Mark Hebner
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• Issue 56
• July 12, 2009
• Stop the Insanity
• Albert Einstein
• Step 12

• Issue 55
• May 29, 2009
• How to Ruin a Good Thing
• Warren Buffett
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• Issue 54
• May 08, 2009
• Cramer Fact Check
• Dan Solin
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• Issue 53
• April 22, 2009
• Testing Market Efficiency
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 52
• April 03, 2009
• Hedge Funds: A Fool’s Errand
• Fred Schwed Jr.
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• Issue 51
• March 27, 2009
• A Special Message From Mark Hebner
• Mark Hebner
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• Issue 50
• March 19, 2009
• Naked Truths
• Warren Buffett
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• Issue 49
• March 07, 2009
• Where's the Market Going?
• Michael Edesess
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• Issue 48
• February 27, 2009
• Where Have All the Returns Gone?
• Mark Hulbert
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• Issue 47
• February 09, 2009
• Risk: A Primer
• Charles Ellis
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• Issue 46
• January 12, 2009
• Draw the Line in '09
• John C. Bogle
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• Issue 45
• January 02, 2009
• Oh, How the Mighty Fall
• Peter Cohan
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• Issue 44
• December 22, 2008
• You’re a Mean One, Mr. Madoff
• Burton Malkiel
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• Issue 43
• December 12, 2008
• Last One In Has a Rotten Nest Egg
• The Financial Press
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• Issue 42
• December 05, 2008
• Financial Fear Factor
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
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• Issue 41
• November 26, 2008
• Are We There Yet?
• Burton Malkiel
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• Issue 40
• November 18, 2008
• Don’t Try This At Home
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 39
• November 03, 2008
• Free Markets are Doing Their Job
• Marlena I. Lee
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• Issue 38
• October 20, 2008
• The Resilience of Capitalism
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 37
• October 06, 2008
• The 40-Year Old Lesson
• Harry Markowitz
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• Issue 36
• September 26, 2008
• Should You Be Worried About Your Investments?
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 35
• September 17, 2008
• Fallen Market Perspectives
• Jeremy J. Siegel
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• Issue 34
• September 12, 2008
• What Are You Paying for Your 401(k)?
• Michael C. Keenan
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• Issue 33
• September 05, 2008
• Commodities: A Cautionary Tale
• Matt Krantz
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• Issue 32
• August 29, 2008
• Should You Invest in Down Markets?
• Benjamin Graham
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• Issue 31
• August 18, 2008
• It's Not Easy Bein' Green
• Kermit the Frog
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• Issue 30
• August 11, 2008
• A 12-Step Program For Stockoholics
• Bill Miller
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• Issue 29
• August 01, 2008
• Lessons From Benjamin Graham
• Benjamin Graham
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• Issue 28
• July 25, 2008
• Value of Long-term Equity Investing
• James Pardoe
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• Issue 27
• July 16, 2008
• Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These
• John Lennon
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• Issue 26
• July 03, 2008
• The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read
• Dan Solin
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• Issue 25
• June 30, 2008
• Investments with higher expected returns
• William F. Sharpe
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• Issue 24
• June 20, 2008
• Commodity Futures
• Truman A. Clark
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• Issue 23
• June 12, 2008
• Eugene Fama Receives Morgan Stanley-AFA Award for Excellence in Finance
• Richard C. Green
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• Issue 22
• June 04, 2008
• A Good Portfolio
• Harry Markowitz
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• Issue 21
• March 27, 2008
• Who still believes markets don't work?
• Rex Sinquefield
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• Issue 20
• May 19, 2008
• Chances are you won't beat an Index Fund
• David F. Swensen
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• Issue 19
• May 12, 2008
• Index funds, an alternative to actively managed funds
• Michael C. Keenan
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• Issue 18
• May 01, 2008
• Risks and benefits of hedge fund investing
• Stanford Graduate School of Business
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• Issue 17
• April 28, 2008
• Managers who can beat the street
• Jack Meyer
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• Issue 16
• April 14, 2008
• Active Management Taxes
• Theodore Aronson
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• Issue 15
• April 21, 2008
• Hidden Fees in 401k
• George Miller
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• Issue 14
• April 07, 2008
• Reported Mutual Fund Returns
• John C. Bogle
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• Issue 13
• March 31, 2008
• The Bigger Fool
• Ben Kenobi
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• Issue 12
• March 26, 2008
• A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it
• Latin Truism
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• Issue 11
• March 17, 2008
• Hedge funds are risky
• Burton G. Malkiel
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• Issue 10
• March 11, 2008
• The stock market is like a gambling casino
• Burton G. Malkiel
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• Issue 9
• March 03, 2008
• Chance Alone
• Merton Miller
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• Issue 8
• February 25, 2008
• History You Don't Know
• Harry S. Truman
• Step 9
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• Issue 7
• February 18, 2008
• Higher Expected Returns?
• William F. Sharpe
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• Issue 6
• February 11, 2008
• Tax Loss Harvesting
• Mark T. Hebner
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• Issue 5
• February 04, 2008
• Our favourite holding period is forever
• Warren Buffett
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• Issue 4
• January 28, 2008
• Two Kinds of Investors
• William Bernstein
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• Issue 3
• January 21, 2008
• Surprising truths about long and short-term investing
• Charles Ellis
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• Issue 2
• January 14, 2008
• Unforeseen Circumstances
• Burton Malkiel
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• Issue 1
• January 07, 2008
• You will almost never find a fund manager who can repeatedly beat the market
• John C. Bogle
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