Is a stock market crash just around the corner? It's a question on a lot of investors' minds these days - in this note, we'll explore a few different approaches to answering this question, including a detailed explanation of our favorite.

Twenty of the most influential voices in personal finance converge on a unified message: successful financial decision-making requires discipline, humility, and knowing that complexity is the enemy.

We steer our financial course through life choosing how much to spend and how to invest what's left, periodically updating our choices as circumstances evolve. It's a pretty simple problem to put into words, but finding an optimal solution has occupied some very bright minds since Harry Markowitz got the ball rolling 60 years ago.

Inheritance can be an important way to help support your family in the long-term - but even a large sum may not go as far as you might think.

What do you stand to inherit? It still feels like a question from a different age, despite its growing importance today.

Bond markets are a valuable source of information about the future. If you believe in the wisdom of crowds - particularly when the crowd is big, has lots of money and tends to focus on cash flows rather than blithely extrapolating future returns from the past - then you'll want to know what the bond market crowd has to say.

By Victor Haghani and James White [note]This is not an offer or solicitation to invest, nor are we tax experts and nothing herein should be construed as tax advice. Past returns are not indicative of future performance. All errors are our own, they are fewer due to the help of our friends David Blob, Larry Hilibrand, Mark Jansen, and Jeffrey Rosenbluth, as well as our colleague Jerry Bell, who gave their comments on this article.

Leveraged ETFs have been in the news a lot recently...

What's the best way to distribute your stock and bond holdings between your taxable and non-taxable investment accounts?

By Victor Haghani and James White [note]This is not an offer or solicitation to invest, nor are we tax experts and nothing herein should be construed as tax advice. Past returns are not indicative of future performance. Thank you to Professors John Campbell and Nick Barberis for pointing us to relevant areas of the academic literature, and to Jeff Rosenbluth and Larry Hilibrand for their comments.[/note] ESTIMATED READING TIME: 8 min. As market prices change

Since the election of Donald Trump, the global stock market as a whole has been pretty tranquil...but this placid surface view masks some pretty meaningful underlying turbulence.

Here is an idea that defies conventional wisdom: the stock market has delivered most of its return in the night-time, when it’s fast asleep. Wait, what?