WynnSights Blog

Are Health Savings Accounts Too Good to be True?

Hugh F. Wynn

Oct 7, 20213 min read

Are Health Savings Accounts Too Good to be True?

Is it possible to contribute more that you're likely to spend on healthcare costs to your Health Savings Account (HSA)?

Make Investment Bank Using the Eighth Wonder of World

Hugh F. Wynn

Sep 23, 20214 min read

Make Investment Bank Using the Eighth Wonder of World

Albert Einstein referred to compound interest as the “Eighth Wonder of the World…the most powerful force in the universe."

Trading vs. Investing: Which is More Likely to Reap Rewards?

Hugh F. Wynn

Aug 12, 20213 min read

Trading vs. Investing: Which is More Likely to Reap Rewards?

These are two very different approaches to making money in the stock and bond markets - essentially trading versus investing.

Hugh F. Wynn

Jul 29, 20214 min read

Is There a Cure for Tightwad-itis?

It's great to save your hard-earned dollars but when does saving becoming more of a sickness and less of a good habit?

Hugh F. Wynn

Jul 22, 20214 min read

The Secret to My (Investing) Success

My PDQ Principles of Investing (Patience, Diversification and Quality) revolve around the concept of simplicity.

Set Your Kid Up With a Health Savings Account (HSA)

Hugh F. Wynn

Jul 15, 20213 min read

Set Your Kid Up With a Health Savings Account (HSA)

Kids who are no longer their parents’ tax dependents (or anyone else’s dependent for that matter), can open their own Health Savings Account

Exercise Patience You Will, Young Investor

Hugh F. Wynn

Feb 11, 20216 min read

Exercise Patience You Will, Young Investor

I was very pleased to get a question from a young, fledgling investor who is ready to storm the market with a year's worth of income!...

Guilty as Charged: How Do You Know When Enough is Enough?

Hugh F. Wynn

Jan 28, 20212 min read

Guilty as Charged: How Do You Know When Enough is Enough?

Many of us started with nothing (except that egg money, Joe) but did have the good sense to pay attention to parental and other financial ad

WELCOME 2021! Give the Gift of Education to a Deserving Kid This Year

Hugh F. Wynn

Dec 31, 20204 min read

WELCOME 2021! Give the Gift of Education to a Deserving Kid This Year

I mark the end of the year/beginning of the new year with my recommendations for educational gifting options, practicing patience during per

Hugh F. Wynn

Dec 17, 20203 min read

How to Keep Savings from Yourself

In this episode of Q&A: Real World WynnSights, we explore a growing movement toward employer-promoted savings vehicles, admit the 2020 equit

The Recipe for Investment Success: Time, Money…and Discipline

Hugh F. Wynn

Nov 12, 20202 min read

The Recipe for Investment Success: Time, Money…and Discipline

Mix together equal parts time, money and discipline and let it simmer. You'll be rewarded with a nice dish of savings!

Individual Retirement Accounts: Traditional, Roth and Conversions

Hugh F. Wynn

Oct 29, 20204 min read

Individual Retirement Accounts: Traditional, Roth and Conversions

Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are a blessing, but which way should you lean when it comes to choosing a tradition IRA or Roth IRA?

Trying to Beat the Market is Futile - and Fleeting

Hugh F. Wynn

Sep 24, 20204 min read

Trying to Beat the Market is Futile - and Fleeting

By investing in index funds you surrender your quest to be on top of the market, knowledge-wise.

Dare to be Average and You'll Come Out on Top

Hugh F. Wynn

Sep 10, 20204 min read

Dare to be Average and You'll Come Out on Top

Investors – particularly young, inexperienced investors – tend to believe that they can “beat the stock market."

Short-Term Speculation Erodes the Power of Compounding

Hugh F. Wynn

Sep 3, 20203 min read

Short-Term Speculation Erodes the Power of Compounding

Check out this new post on the WynnSights blog, a personal investment blog based on blogger Hugh Wynn's fervent belief that investing should

How to Optimize Retirement Spending During COVID-19

Hugh F. Wynn

Jul 23, 20204 min read

How to Optimize Retirement Spending During COVID-19

The enduring COVID-19 pandemic has retirees (or those nearing retirement) taking a second look at their “buckets of funds” – sources of cash

Investors Have Been Brave During this Pandemic

Hugh F. Wynn

Jul 2, 20202 min read

Investors Have Been Brave During this Pandemic

That pesky COVID-19 virus has caused many folks, young and old, to take a second look at their investment plans.

Investing - like life - does not have to be complicated.

Hugh F. Wynn

Jun 18, 20204 min read

Investing - like life - does not have to be complicated.

Bogle’s principles are the foundation for and embedded in my own PDQ Principles of Investing… Patience, Diversification and Quality.

Save and Invest...Or I'll Wash Your Mouth Out With Soap!

Hugh F. Wynn

Apr 30, 20203 min read

Save and Invest...Or I'll Wash Your Mouth Out With Soap!

I don’t believe young people are disinterested in saving and investing.

Target-Date Funds: Simple, Diverse and Great for the Autopilot Investor

Hugh F. Wynn

Mar 19, 20204 min read

Target-Date Funds: Simple, Diverse and Great for the Autopilot Investor

Target-date funds (TDFs) are offered to investors that seek to grow assets over a specified period of time, usually for retirement.

Watch Those Pennies. The Dollars Will Take Care of Themselves.

Hugh F. Wynn

Mar 12, 20203 min read

Watch Those Pennies. The Dollars Will Take Care of Themselves.

You’ve heard the old refrain, “Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves”. It’s the underpinnings of everything I...