Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Investment Advice”
October 14, 2016
As we approach Election Day on November 8, there will be endless debate, prognostication and media hype. But even before a single vote has been cast, the potential results are already being priced into stocks around the world. While elections do have real consequences and …
June 24, 2016
The Dow Jones was down 611 points today to 17,399 or 5,396 points higher than we were five years ago. The S&P was down 76 points today to 2,037 or 765 points higher than we were five years ago. The short term investor looks at …
March 28, 2016
Investor behavior has more to do with the success of a plan than investment behavior. Wealth isn’t primarily determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior. Many investors are constantly diving into funds with spectacular past performance. When the funds go cold, they jump to the …
March 28, 2016
When the headlines of newspapers or the lead stories on the newscast start with “Market Plunges”, “Stocks Dive” or “ Disaster on Wall Street”, they are usually followed by a reason why the stock market did what it did. I like to call that reason, …
January 4, 2016
There’s a reason that investors tend to only hear about “looming” market doom or “imminent” market growth. While many news outlets have incentive to draw viewer attention with wildly bullish or bearish predictions, these sensationalized views may be a distraction to a sound investment approach. …
January 28, 2015
Imagine investing in an asset that has increased in value by 14.8% per year over the last three years. This asset also had a positive return when U.S. stocks fell last September. Can you guess what asset class this was? The answer: International stocks in …
January 28, 2015
When you lay out the returns of a variety of asset classes over time it’s hard to find any meaningful patterns. The chart below shows the returns on 10 different asset classes over time and it’s quickly evident that what was the star of last year rarely …
June 25, 2014
What would you do if your investments lost 10% in a single day? A) Add more money to my account. B) Hold steady with what I’ve got. C) Yank my money; I wouldn’t be able to stand any more losses. If investors buy the right …
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