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One Third of Americans Feel Financially Insecure
It’s no secret that financial insecurity is a growing concern among Americans, with a significant number feeling the weight of economic pressures. The [...]
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The Song Remains the Same
The Song Remains the Same If you were tempted to undo your market seatbelt as we entered 2024, that has turned out to be a bad idea. The wild ride has continued [...]
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Market Update | Year Ahead 2024 – Twin Peaks
One of the most perplexing aspects of the markets is their ability to make you feel – how shall we say this – less than smart. Just when you think the [...]
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Fall 2023: Uncharted Territory
Leave the Past Behind One of the most tempting mental undertakings to find yourself doing during times of great market uncertainty is to look back at history for [...]
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Market Update: It’s Lonely Out There
Hope everyone is having a great summer so far. The typical summer slowdown does not seem to be in effect for us. We are quite busy, but good busy, and for that we [...]
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Surprise, Surprise: Stocks, Bonds and Gold Rise
Oops, They Did it Again ‘Don’t believe the hype’ is one of the big lessons learned so far in 2023 but Stocks, bonds, and gold have been solid. Recall how [...]
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Some Green (Profit) on the Screen
As the first quarter comes to a close, not much has changed in the markets from the past year. The US Federal Reserve is still plowing ahead with a string of [...]
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(Market) Partly Cloudy, but Warmer
Fed be Gone Continuing on with our theme from last month, we see the markets remain on the path to normalizing. I know this might sound like crazy talk, but [...]
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Secure 2.0 Act: 4 Big Changes to Your Retirement Savings
In the final days of 2022, Congress passed the Secure 2.0 Act which made fundamental changes to American savings for spending money in retirement. The reasons for [...]
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The Endowment Strategy: How to Build an Armor-Plated Portfolio
The year was 1985, and David Swenson of Yale University was about to change the world. The investment community had no idea that a new strategy was under [...]
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