Sensible Financial provides links to these websites because we believe they contain information you may find useful. However, you should not construe any content on any of these sites as advice.

Investing

• Index Investor ; Devoted to all things index. [Sensible Financial’s Founder’s sister and brother-in-law own and operate this site.]
• iShares ; detailed information on this very large family of exchange traded funds (ETFs). Barclay’s, the creator and manager of iShares, is the largest manager of indexed assets in the world.
• Dimensional Fund Advisors ; detailed information on this passively invested family of funds with special expertise in value and small capitalization.
• Vanguard ETF ; detailed information about this very efficient family of ETFs. Vanguard is the largest manager of publicly traded indexed assets in the world.

General Interest

• Becker/Posner blog ; Extreme economics – the economic perspective on current events of all kinds.

Financial Planning Resources

• Social Security Administration ; you can find many of the arcana of Social Security here.
• Medicare Part D ; learn about this important program, and select the most financially attractive Part D option for you here.
• A/PACT Series on issues of aging ; includes an unbiased perspective on alternatives for dealing with long term care (produced by the US FTC in cooperation with AARP).
• AARP Reverse Mortgage ; unbiased information about this interesting new tool for turning some of your home equity into cash.