Top 5 Articles:

1. Should I Leave My 401k When I Leave My Job? 
   (2004-10-14) -- This article originally appeared in the Investment Kimmunique newsletter. read more
    
2. Building A Financial Identity 
   (2001-04-01) -- Part 1 of a multi-part series entitled "Mastering the Art and Science of Building Wealth" read more
    
3. The Correlation Between Wealth and Time 
   (2001-03-04) -- When you open your mind to new ideas, they suddenly appear. read more
    
4. Rolling Your 401K Over to an IRA 
   (2005-02-18) -- A simple step guide to rolling your 401K into an IRA. read more
    
5. Anticipation: The Ultimate Advantage 
   (2001-05-26) -- Part 3 of a multi-part series entitled "Mastering the Art and Science of Building Wealth" read more
    

Top 5 Interviews:

1. Dr. Brad Barber, Analysts Recommendations 
   (2004-04-24) -- Author of numerous ground-breaking and widely quoted studies. He and Kim will be talking about one of his areas of expertise--analysts recommendations. We will go through the numbers and talk about why analysts, as a rule, are so far off. read more
    
2. Walter Updegrave, Saving for Retirement 
   (2004-05-29) -- Author of "We're not in Kansas Anymore", and Money Magazine's "Ask the Expert" . Walter has been covering the financial markets and writing about saving and investing for retirement for nearly 20 years. We will be talking about the steps you can take to save for retirement even if you are very late getting started. read more
    
3. Burton Malkiel, Late Trading 
   (2003-11-05) -- Author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street and a professor of financial economics at Princeton University. He first published "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" in 1973 where he first stated his belief that market timing is impossible. He believes that this is still true today. read more
    
4. Paul Farrell, Mutual Fund Rip-Offs (Full) 
   (2004-08-21) -- If you still have money in mutual funds, you won't want to miss this show. Dr. Paul Farrell is a personal finance and investing columnist for CBS MarketWatch. He is also the author of "The Winning Portfolio", "The Millionaire Code", "Mutual Funds on the Net", and "The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing". He and I will be discussing, among other things, all the ways mutual funds rip off investors. read more
    
5. Jim Mahar, Reaching the World from the Web 
   (2004-11-20) -- Dr. Mahar has a PhD in Finance from Pennsylvania State University and teaches Finance at St. Bonaventure University. However, this professor doesn't limit his teaching to the classroom. His need to keep in touch with his Finance students developed into the website, FinanceProfessor.com, and a newsletter. While he has taught almost every conceivable Finance class, his research interests are in Corporate Finance and Financial education. Jim uses his FinanceProfessor Blog to share the latest financial news and spread the word that Finance is fun. He and I will be talking about his website and how he uses it to bring the real world to the classroom and vice versa. read more
    

Top 5 Newsletters:

1. Ever Wonder How Full Service Brokers Are Paid? 
   (2005-03-10) -- Better to switch to an online brokerage house and learn to manage your account on your own than to let your account languish at a full service brokerage house that has no financial incentive to give you the time of day. read more
    
2. Are You Over-Concentrated In Your Company's Stock? 
   (2005-03-17) -- What percentage of your portfolio is in the stock of current or previous employers? How did you accumulate so much? Why haven't you diversified? read more
    
3. Are You Better Off In Bonds? 
   (2005-06-16) -- Everyone thinks of bonds as boring. That's true. They are. That's exactly the point. But everyone also thinks of bonds as being low return when compared to the stock market. Really, the returns are not all that much different. read more
    
4. The Fred Fiasco ... 
   (2005-07-28) -- You can see the actual returns from the stock portion of Fred's portfolio year to year, taken directly from Merrill Lynch's AIMS Report on the account and compare those to the returns of the S&P 500. read more
    
5. Low Risk Income 
   (2005-01-31) -- Any investor in any investment that has risk is going to have variability in returns. The advantage of the Snider Investment Method, in my mind, is that variability falls within a very narrow range and it gives you much more return for each unit of risk as compared to either stock or bond portfolios. read more
    

Top 5 Radio Shows:

1. Jim Mahar, Implications of Contradicting Investment Strategies 
   (2004-11-13) -- Jim Mahar is a finance professor at St. Bonaventure University who has research interests in a number of areas, including the use of options to manage risks in a portfolio. He is best known as the founder and driving force behind www.financeprofessor.com. Jim says the purpose of www.financeprofessor.com is to bring the classroom to the real world and vice versa.
   Jim and Kim will talk about the contradiction between academia and Wall Street or the Financial Press and what the implications of those contradictions mean to you.
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2. Walter Updegrave, We're Not in Kansas Anymore 
   (2004-05-29) -- Walter Updegrave is Money Magazine's "Ask the Expert" and the author of, "We're not in Kansas Anymore". He discusses the specific steps necessary to prepare savings for retirement, even if you're a late starter.
   Kim also reviews the current status of the investment world and how it affects you.
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3. Burt Malkiel, The Random Walk Theory 
   (2004-04-17) -- Burt Malkiel is a pioneer in the field of investment finance. He has spent most of his nearly thirty-year academic career at Princeton with the exception of an eight-year stint as the Dean of Yale's School of Organization and Management. He has served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors and on numerous advisory committees to government agencies such as the SEC. He currently sits on the board of both Vanguard and Prudential Insurance, as well as the investment committee of the Pew Trust. Finally, in addition to the countless academic papers and journal articles over the years, Dr. Malkiel is probably best known as the author of the investment classic, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," and now, the more recently released, "Random Walk Guide to Investing."
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4. John Mauldin, "Muddle-Through Economy" 
   (2005-05-14) -- John Believes that the next ten years will be what he calls a "muddle-through economy", marked by more recession and a less than stellar stock market. We will be discussing the implications of that for retirees and the near retirees of the baby boomer generation. read more
    
5. Brad Barber, Track Records of Brokerage Analysts 
   (2004-10-23) -- Dr. Brad Barber is a professor of finance at the University of California-Davis and, along with his frequent collaborator, Terry Odean, has published some truly ground-breaking studies into the actions of individual investors. Brad and Kim will be discussing the track record of brokerage analysts and whether or not you should follow their recommendations.
   Kim will also explore the reason so many of you have resolved to make some changes in your investments but you haven't done anything about it?
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Top 5 Videos:

1. Kim's Quotables 
   (2004-10-18) -- These "out-takes" include quotes, financial wisdom from Kim's grandmother and some of Kim's favorite quips. read more
    
2. Stay in Bora Bora 
   (2006-05-14) -- Suzi Ferrante, one of our students, wrote a little song. 50 of our die hard Snider Method investors were on a cruise together in April - not in Bora Bora, but in the Caribbean - including Suzi and her husband Russ. Suzi put together a willing ensemble and after a little practice (let me stress little), they sang the Bora Bora song for the rest of the group. We captured the only live performance of the Bora Bora Song, as sung by the founding members of the Bora Bora Society, for posterity. Have a look: (NOTE: The play button will appear in the top right when you move your mouse over it.) read more
    
3. Kim's Story 
   (2004-10-18) -- This short interview will introduce you to Kim Snider and the "Investor Train Wreck" video. read more
    
4. Inaugural Alumni Cruise 
   (2006-05-14) -- 50 graduates of the Snider Investment Method, accompanied by 6 members of Kim Snider Financial Communications, took a one week cruise in the Caribbean aboard Royal Caribean's Rhapsody of the Seas. Here is the video we shot while on-board. read more