Many people think the biggest risk with money is losing it. A bad investment. A market crash. A bet that doesn't pay off. But what if the most expensive financial decision isn't a bad choice — it's no choice at all? That's what nearly a century of market data suggests. And the numbers are hard to argue with. What $100 Looked Like in 1928 In the late 1920s, $100 went a long way. It could...

Many estate planning failures aren't dramatic. There's no missing will, no family feud, no document anyone forgot to sign. The plan is right there in the drawer. The folder is labeled. The signatures are in place. It just doesn't do what the family thought it would do. That's the version of estate planning that catches people off guard — not the absence of a plan, but the presence of one that quietly stopped working somewhere...

Nearly half of investors check their portfolio at least once a day. 1 Many of them aren't reviewing anything. They're refreshing a number. Watching it move. Sometimes celebrating. Sometimes panicking. But not actually evaluating whether the portfolio is built for the life they're heading into. That's a different exercise. And the years around retirement are where the difference starts to matter most. The Habit That Isn't Doing What You Think It Is Checking a portfolio...