Category: Financial Markets

Cash Reserve in Retirement

Do you keep a spare tire in your car? You hope you will never have to use it, but it is good to know it...

Sequence of Returns Risk

When buying a home, you probably know many potential risks, such as the risk your home will go down in value over time or the...

Tuning Out the Noise from the Financial Media

Image used under license from Freestock.com When asked what to watch out for when it comes to investing, clients may expect us to tell them...

How to Protect Yourself and Your Money From Hackers and Identity Thieves

As you may have heard, Equifax, which is a credit reporting agency, suffered a data breach that compromised the personal and financial data of more...

Objective Investment Advice You Can Use

As you probably saw last week, global stock markets dropped sharply in value. There are a number of factors contributing to these recent declines including...

Should You Follow Market Forecasters?

USA Today recently published an interesting article titled “How bad are Wall Street forecasts? Really bad.” The article reviews why you are probably better off...

The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Your Portfolio

Changes in interest rates have a disproportionate effect on your portfolio. Lower interest rates can help boost corporate earnings, and as earnings increase, market prices...

Retro Investing Article from WSJ

The Wall Street Journal recently published a very timely article about the current investment climate. Here’s the link in case you missed it: “Retro Investing...

S&P Downgrade

Lessons of Lower Ratings Regarding S&P’s decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, the Wall Street Journal’s article Lessons of Lower Ratings provides an historical...

Ignore the Economists

CNNMoney just published an excellent article titled Don’t Listen to Recession Forecasters. This is a great article for those investors who believe they can time...