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What Weston Wellington Taught Me About All-Time Highs—and Investing
The stock market is once again around all-time highs, which should make investors feel pretty good. Oddly, it often does the opposite. Have stocks gone...
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When Evidence Matters More Than Stories
When your life, your family, your retirement, your legacy, and your freedom depend on your capital working for decades, hope is not a strategy. Evidence...
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Market Review 2025: US Stocks Ride Rocky Road to a Third Straight Year of Gains
KEY TAKEAWAYS US stocks notched their third year in a row of double-digit gains, but it wasn’t the smoothest ride. The S&P 500 hit records...
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How We Define Risk — Not as the movement of markets, but as the possibility of losing the life you’ve worked so hard to create
At Cogent, we meet countless successful professionals who have worked decades to build their wealth, only to discover that the hardest part isn’t earning it...
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AI and Investing: How Evidence-Driven Investors Should Think About the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the latest force reshaping global business and investor conversations alike. From generative AI tools like ChatGPT to the vast infrastructure...
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10 Principles of Successful Investing
Successful investing isn’t about predicting markets or chasing headlines. It’s about behavior—staying patient, staying disciplined, and aligning your decisions with long-term goals. These principles reflect...
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Navigating Market Volatility: Your Cogent Strategic Wealth Update
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. – Steve Martin We find ourselves today in a...
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Why Diversify? The Best Case I’ve Ever Heard
Special post by Michael Evans, Founder of Cogent Strategic Wealth Cogent Wealth, the firm I founded, just celebrated 15 years of serving clients. Yet, I’ve...
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The Top Investing Questions for 2025
As we turn the page on 2024, a new chapter begins filled with new opportunities as well as obstacles we must face in our lives...
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Presidential Elections and Your Investment Portfolio: Why Long-Term Strategy Wins
What you will learn: In this blog post, you’ll discover why presidential elections have surprisingly little impact on long-term investment returns, debunking a common myth...
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Investing Strategies for High Achievers with Limited Time
At Cogent Strategic Wealth, a wealth management firm in Chicago and St. George, we understand your unique pressures and concerns as a successful entrepreneur or...
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Nonlinear Financial Success Using Evidence-Driven Investing™
How you pursue your financial goals more than likely doesn’t occur on a straight-forward trajectory or in a predictable manner. Instead, it is more like...
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