 Director of Personal Finance
Tim Maurer has devoted much of his work to taking financial complexity and bringing it back to the basics. His latest work, the newly released
Simple Money, is a step-by-step guide that can be used as a real-life workbook to plan for today and for life, for the unexpected and for the inevitable.
Simple takes a no-nonsense look at living, earning, saving, spending, giving, growing and protecting.
In this Q&A, Tim talks about how the most important word behind any financial plan might be
why, and how his book can deliver the magical word of
hope.
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The approximate number of active fund managers who generate statistically significant "alpha" (excess returns over their risk-adjusted benchmark). Director of Investor Advocacy Dan Solin says this number is one that "Wall Street doesn't want you to know and is terrified you will find out." 
The annualized compound return of the S&P 500 Index from 1970-2015 is 10.3 percent. That number drops to 6.9 percent when you omit the 25 best single days that the market experienced during that period, providing an illustration of what can occur when an investor mistimes the market. 
