For investors, the most decisive edge is not stock-picking brilliance or perfect market calls, it is the quiet arithmetic of ...

In the savings game, the most complicated task is figuring out how interest is compounded. But if you’ll give me less than five minutes of your time, I’ll try to explain this devilish animal, ...

In a recent class, my students at Texas Lutheran University were reviewing their investment portfolio. Since its inception nearly 10 years ago, their portfolio has grown at a rate of 15.7 percent per ...

Compound math doesn’t add up. If you add five sevens together, you get 35. Five times seven. Many of us, at least if we slow down a tad, can do that math in our heads. How about multiplying five ...