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How to Be a Disciplined Investor
Discipline. You can’t be a successful investor without a healthy serving of discipline. But what does it mean to be a disciplined investor? To be a disciplined investor, one must learn how not to react emotionally to market...
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The Return of Volatility (and why that's OK)
How many times have you heard "Stay the Course" or "Don't Panic?" My industry uses these phrases to attempt to dissuade investors from making any sudden moves when market volatility increases. This is like the pilot that addresses her...
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The 3 Investment Truths
Although markets can be somewhat unpredictable at times, beyond expectations and predictions, hope and fear, there are certain investment truths that will always hold. Investment Truth #1 Through all the fog of distraction, the primary...
Read MoreTrade Wars - A New Hope
Can I tell you how long I've been waiting to somehow work a Star Wars reference into this blog? For those non-Star Wars fans, "Star Wars: A New Hope" is the name of the first movie that came out in 1977. I was 9 years old, so it was...
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When is an Index Fund NOT an Index Fund?
That’s a rhetorical question. While its always fun to start out with a riddle, we’ll answer this one. I’m sure you have heard of the phrase “Index Funds.” An index fund is a type of mutual fund with a...
Read MoreTell Me Again What Exactly is the Yield Curve?
The yield curve is just a graph that shows U.S. government bills and bonds with different maturity dates, along with the yield on those bonds for each date. The most common yield curve typically shows the interest rates for 3-month,...
Read MoreWhat is a Fiduciary and Are We Fiduciaries?
First thing’s first. Yes, we act in a fiduciary manner for our clients - we always have and always will. We will always place our clients’ interests and the integrity of the investment profession above our own interests....
Read MoreSeeing Through the Financial Fog
Seeing Through the Financial Fog It can't be August already. The summer just started, and school just ended – right? Summer always seems to fly past us too quickly. And while most of us got to relax a bit over the summer, it...
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