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Satisfying Your Tastes and Preferences for Investing and Dining

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
10/18/2019
If you were asked to describe what you liked about your favorite food, where would you start? If you were asked to describe what you would like in your investment portfolio, what would you emphasize?

Embrace Uncertainty!

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
12/30/2019
We may not like uncertainty, but we need to understand and embrace it to keep ourselves positioned for both survival and success.

Recent Market Volatility: Coronavirus Worries Are Only Part of the Story

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
02/03/2020
In addition to the coronavirus, other sources of investor uncertainty include global economic growth, the UK finalizing their Brexit negotiations, trade negotiations between Europe and the US, President TrumpÆs impeachment and ongoing Senate trial, and 20

How Elections Affect the Market

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
02/28/2020
A bit of history helps bring some perspective to trying to read too much into the influence of elections on stock markets. 

Coronavirus Worries Drive Economic Uncertainty and Stock Market Declines

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
02/28/2020
Investment markets around the world have been declining sharply this week in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. 

Living in Fear of a Market Downturn?

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Foster Group
03/03/2020
Dimensional Fund Advisors’ David Booth on why you should change the way you think about investing.

Webinar Replay: Prediction, Expectation, Speculation, & Preparation

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
03/06/2020
Foster Group's Chief Investment Officer, Kent Kramer, explains how to position both your investments and your thinking to better avoid predictable disappointments.

April 3, 2020 Financial Perspectives

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
04/03/2020
In this Foster Group update, Chief Investment Officer, Kent Kramer gives an investment recap from the past week and discusses bear markets, recessions, and recovery.

Four Ways to Connect with Foster Group

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Emily Appelgate
04/29/2020
How can you stay connected financially during this time?
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How Elections Affect the Market

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
02/28/2020
A bit of history helps bring some perspective to trying to read too much into the influence of elections on stock markets. 

Coronavirus Worries Drive Economic Uncertainty and Stock Market Declines

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
02/28/2020
Investment markets around the world have been declining sharply this week in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. 

Living in Fear of a Market Downturn?

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Foster Group
03/03/2020
Dimensional Fund Advisors’ David Booth on why you should change the way you think about investing.

Webinar Replay: Prediction, Expectation, Speculation, & Preparation

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
03/06/2020
Foster Group's Chief Investment Officer, Kent Kramer, explains how to position both your investments and your thinking to better avoid predictable disappointments.

April 3, 2020 Financial Perspectives

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
04/03/2020
In this Foster Group update, Chief Investment Officer, Kent Kramer gives an investment recap from the past week and discusses bear markets, recessions, and recovery.

Four Ways to Connect with Foster Group

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Emily Appelgate
04/29/2020
How can you stay connected financially during this time?

Grow Through What You Go Through

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Nikki Nee
05/22/2020
While this time has been incredibly difficult for so many, I hope that people look back on this time and remember the lessons they learned rather than the struggles they suffered.  

What I Think About When Working From Home

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Walt Mozdzer
05/29/2020
In the blink of an eye, it seems, our lives have taken a major turn, because of a sneaky, harmful, invisible germ. The concept of uncertainty is real and palpable.

June 15, 2020 Financial Perspectives

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
06/15/2020
1:20 - Economic Update
3:55 - Market Review
5:28 - Will a Recession Be Bad for Small Company Stocks?
14:52 - Quote of the Week

July 13, 2020 Financial Perspectives

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
07/13/2020
1:25 - News: June 27th to July 10th
3:49 - Recent Market News & 2020 First Half Markets
6:40 - Headline Risks
12:04 - Know the Sources of Headline Risk
13:53 - Resist Investment Action Based on Headline Risk
15:04 - Develop a Checklist for Headline Risk

Diversification: Preparing for the Next Surprise

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
07/14/2020

Probably only one thing is certain: The world is still full of surprises yet to be revealed. Is your portfolio diversified in preparation for the next one?

July 28, 2020 Financial Perspectives

Category: Investing » Foster Group Investment Principles » Accept Uncertainty
By Kent Kramer
07/28/2020

1:14 - News: July 13th - July 24th
4:06 - Market News: July 13th - July 24th
5:40 - Are We There Yet?
7:56 - Which Party Is Better?
11:10 - Seeing Only the Negative

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