Category: portfolio management

Stock Market Review: A Decade at a Glance
Stock Market Review: A Decade at a Glance
Someone once said looking forward is more important than looking back. While that’s true, there can be some advantage in taking a glance in the...
Why Low Risk Investments Are Risky Business
Why Low Risk Investments Are Risky Business
We see it often: Whenever investors are spooked by turbulent times, dollars tend to flow out of the stock market, and into “safe haven” investments...
Recession Risk, Inverted Yield Curves and Stock Market Volatility
Recession Risk, Inverted Yield Curves and Stock Market Volatility
Given the sheer volume of unfolding news of late, it’s certainly understandable if you have real concerns: Is a recession coming? What happens in a...
Does Strategic Wealth Management Include Mutual Funds?
Does Strategic Wealth Management Include Mutual Funds?
Every year, Dimensional Fund Advisors analyzes the mutual fund landscape to find out how many funds outperform benchmarks after costs. Upon analyzing thousands of funds,...
Are Your Politics Affecting Your Investment Results?
Are Your Politics Affecting Your Investment Results?
The fourth quarter of 2018 was a pretty miserable one for investors, with the S&P 500 Index losing 13.5%. And it was looking a lot...
Getting to the Point of a Point
Getting to the Point of a Point
A quick online search for “Dow rallies 500 points” yields a cascade of news stories with similar titles, as does a similar search for “Dow...
Do Surprises Really Move Markets?
Do Surprises Really Move Markets?
French economist Louis Bachelier long ago remarked: “Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged...
An Homage to John “Jack” Bogle
An Homage to John “Jack” Bogle
On January 16th, Vanguard founder John “Jack” Bogle, passed away at age 89 in his Bryn Mawr home.  In my own pursuit to develop a...
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
Sometimes the best, most rigorously developed financial advice is so obvious, it’s become cliché. And yet, investors often end up abandoning this same advice when...
Why Asset Location Makes a Difference in Your Portfolio
Why Asset Location Makes a Difference in Your Portfolio
The first decision you make with respect to your portfolio is its asset allocation, or the mix of stocks and bonds. This initial step is...
How Do You Create Success Simply…in Challenging Markets?
How Do You Create Success Simply…in Challenging Markets?
Congratulations. You’ve done an amazing job as an attorney, pro-athlete or similar high-end professional. You’re still hard at work, but the rewards are finally rolling...
Find Your Happiness Equation While Investing Money
Find Your Happiness Equation While Investing Money
To say that “money isn’t everything” is more than a cliché. Studies in the early 1970s demonstrated that a sense of well-being, or happiness, had...

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