Markets & Marriage
- 01/15/21
How your investment strategy is like a long-term partnership. Your investment strategy is a lot like a marriage. One day you may feel like everything’s going swimmingly. The next day, there might be an argument over who forgot to load the dishwasher. And even the best marriages and partnerships have moments where one or both partners look around and go, “Is this as good as it gets?”
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You will sometimes see the phrase, “getting your financial house in order.” What exactly does that mean?
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How your investment strategy is like a long-term partnership. Your investment strategy is a lot like a marriage. One day you may feel like everything’s going swimmingly. The next day, there might be an argument over who forgot to load the dishwasher. And even the best marriages and partnerships have moments where one or both partners look around and go, “Is this as good as it gets?”
[+] Full Article Building a Healthy Financial Foundation - 01/01/21
You will sometimes see the phrase, “getting your financial house in order.” What exactly does that mean?
[+] Full Article
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September 28, 2015 Three cases for how reactions to “headlines” affected clients during the downturn of 2008-09... Read more »
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September 18, 2015 In a tough time for equities, the Fed elects not to roil the markets. Read more »
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September 11, 2015 Fall might be anything but calm on Wall Street. Volatility is back, in a big way: the CBOE VIX has risen more than 105% since the end of July. Additionally, 11 of the 15 trading days ending September 9 were “all or nothing” days in which more than 80% of the S&P 500 moved either higher or lower. In the last 25 years, the index has not had a 15-day period like this.
Contrast that with the first 159 trading days of 2015, in which just 13 such days occurred according to Bespoke Investment Group research. In fact, during the first half of 2015 the Dow Jones Industrial Average was never more than 3.5% up or down YTD, on pace for the most placid year in its history. This turbulence may persist for several more weeks or months. How does an investor cope with it? It helps to put all of this recent volatility into perspective. Read more »
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![]() September 2, 2015 A short case study between our beloved Cy and Herky's retirement savings strategies reveals that it's never too late to save, but the earlier you do, the effects of compounding really do add up.
Will you accept the "Cy Hawk Savings Challenge"? Read more »
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