Stock Markets Are Positive This Year?
Category: Investing
As this year exemplifies, stock markets have the tendency to do things we would never expect.
Still Searching for the One?
Category: Investing
You do not need to pick the next big winner in order to have a successful investment experience. As a matter of fact, behaving as if this were possible is an almost certain way to have a terrible investment experience. What are the hallmarks of a more successful approach?
Spring Training Thoughts for Your Portfolio
Category: Investing
While the impact of each may not be dramatic on their own, collectively they add up and represent the things we do to incrementally add value to our clients.
Should I Be Worried About Inflation
Category: Investing
September 4, 2020 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
1:00 - In the News: Record Budget Deficits, Employment Improves, Back to School, Markets Give Up Some Gains
3:00 - Investing "FOMO" - Fear of Missing Out
7:26 - Predictable Mistake: Chasing Top Performers
September 27th, 2021 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
In Part two of our interview with Marlena Lee from Dimensional, Kent Kramer and Marlena dig deeper into changes to asset allocation and ESG investing risks and considerations.
September 21, 2020 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
0:51 - In the News: Dr. Fauci, Employment, September Markets
4:18 - Which party would be better for markets and the economy?
4:45 - How would taxes change under each administration?
6:48 - 2021: What will have the most impact?
Selecting the Best Ingredients for Your Portfolio
Category: Investing
In this third piece of our series on building a better portfolio by thinking of it in terms of tastes, recipes, and ingredients, we’ll focus on the benefits of selecting better ingredients.
Satisfying Your Tastes and Preferences for Investing and Dining
Category: Investing
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?
Recent Market Volatility: Coronavirus Worries Are Only Part of the Story
Category: Investing
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
Purpose Before Portfolio
Category: Investing
Are you making investment decisions in light of the game you really want to win?
Prepare to Win
Category: Investing
October 26, 2020 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
1:42 - In the News: Expansion in the US
2:24 - Recent Market Performance
5:07 - Patience: Why This Election is Different
6:52 - Elections Through Inaugurations: Should You Stay Invested?
October 25, 2021 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
Kent Kramer recaps his top take-away moments from our event last week with Morgan Housel.
Morgan used stories to illustrate lessons to help us understand behavioral finance and psychology and how that affects the way we invest.
October 12, 2020 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
1:15 - In the News: What Employment Can Tell Us About Economic Recovery
2:52 - Stock Market Returns in October
3:43 - Value Stocks vs Growth Stocks Historical Returns
5:19 - Why Do Value Stocks Tend to Outperform Growth Stocks?
9:37 - What Should I be Investing in Now?
October 11, 2021 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
Friction can slow can down any machine. What was humming along only minutes or weeks ago, can labor under the strain of too little oil, a little sand in the gears, you name it. The US economy and markets have been seeing an increase in perceived frictions over the past month. Can we get back to smoother operations?
November 8, 2021 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
You know the old saying, “What goes up must come down.” How is it that currently everything seems to be going up at the same time? Signs of inflation like oil prices, labor prices, trade deficits. And yet markets are going up with stocks at all-time highs. Bond prices are rising this week when often, bond prices move inversely to stock prices. Government spending is certainly going up, consumer spending is going up and tax rates seem to be poised to rise as well. What do all these upwards mean for investors?
November 23, 2020 Financial Perspectives
Category: Investing
1:13 - In the News: COVID-19 Cases, Employment Recovery
2:36 – Elections through Inaugurations
3:15 – Equity Factors: Comparison of Various Stock Indexes
5:24 – Expectations: Thinking Back to March 23, 2020
2:36 – Elections through Inaugurations
3:15 – Equity Factors: Comparison of Various Stock Indexes
5:24 – Expectations: Thinking Back to March 23, 2020