Good points! Also helps one avoid the Goodhart trap, optimizing for a wrong thing. Also applies to savings: Dilbert’s 9-point financial plan is one of satisficing, not optimizing:
Dilbert creator Scott Adams claims this is “everything you need to know about personal investing”:
Make a will
Pay off your credit cards
Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
Fund your 401k to the maximum [Or your local equivalent employer contribution matching]
Fund your IRA to the maximum [Or your local equivalent of tax-deductible investment and/or tax-free interest growth]
Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio
Good points! Also helps one avoid the Goodhart trap, optimizing for a wrong thing. Also applies to savings: Dilbert’s 9-point financial plan is one of satisficing, not optimizing:
Dilbert creator Scott Adams claims this is “everything you need to know about personal investing”:
Make a will
Pay off your credit cards
Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
Fund your 401k to the maximum [Or your local equivalent employer contribution matching]
Fund your IRA to the maximum [Or your local equivalent of tax-deductible investment and/or tax-free interest growth]
Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio