Investors Will Think of the Last Quarter of 2018 for Years to Come, But They...
The Economist described it like this, “After a rotten October and limp November, the S&P 500 tumbled in value by 15 percent between November 30th and December 24th. Despite an astonishing bounce of...
View ArticleVolatile Markets Have Exposed One Big Flaw! June 25, 2012
VOLATILE MARKETS HAVE EXPOSED ONE BIG FLAW! There is one big flaw in the traditional thinking about how to determine an investor’s “risk tolerance.” Traditionally, risk tolerance was thought of in...
View ArticleWeekly Perspective, August 13, 2012
The Markets Is the “cult of equity” dying? Since 1912, stocks have returned on average 6.6 percent per year after inflation, according to Bill Gross, the legendary bond manager from PIMCO. Recently,...
View ArticleWeekly Perspectives – October 27, 2014
Check Out Jonathan K. DeYoe in Huffington Post – Money The Markets After a week that left investors wondering what’s next – much like fishermen on a lake as the wind kicks up and the water gets...
View ArticleLittle Country. BIG Trouble!
North Korea may be a little country, but it can churn up big trouble. The possibility that verbal hostilities between the United States and North Korea could trigger geopolitical conflict had investors...
View ArticleAre You Easily Distracted?
My post last week about avoiding pessimism got me thinking. Why is it so hard for investors to hang-in there during normal market volatility? I think the answer is simple: we get distracted. The same...
View ArticleIt’s about time. I was worried the market was broken.
Thank goodness the markets corrected last week. The thing can’t just go up and up… and up. The return of volatility is the return to normal. We embrace volatility as the normal operation of healthy...
View ArticleSTAY ON TARGET
As a Generation X financial advisor, I was raised on Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo taking on the Empire with the support of some droids and those adorable little Ewoks. I am absolutely...
View ArticleRemember: Volatility is Normal
Major U.S. stock market indices climbed into record territory during August. They gave back some gains last week. Peter Wells of Financial Times explained: “Speculation about a fresh round of tariffs...
View ArticleRemember: Volatility is Normal
Major U.S. stock market indices climbed into record territory during August. They gave back some gains last week. Peter Wells of Financial Times explained: “Speculation about a fresh round of tariffs...
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