Bridge Communities Golf Classic
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -September 22, 2023 On August 29th, 2023, Bridge Communities held their annual golf outing and fundraiser at Cog Hill Golf Course in Lemont, Illinois. M. Brown Financial Advisors was proud to sponsor this event…
Options for Cash
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -August 24, 2023 Individuals with cash sitting in low interest checking and savings accounts now have many options to beat the paltry yields being offered by banks. The Federal Reserve recently raised the Federal…
It’s Halftime – What’s Next?
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -July 10, 2023 We are now halfway through 2023 and investors are wondering what comes next? The S&P 500 is now up 16% on the year, in spite of significant bank failures and debt…
Thinking About Losing – Part 2
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -June 29, 2023 Dollarizing Losses Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, pioneers of behavioral psychology, studied how losses affect individuals. Their studies concluded that the pain of losing money is about twice as much as…
Thinking About Losing
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -May 4, 2023 No one likes to think about losing. If you play a sport, you probably never think about losing the game before the game starts. Investing is different. We need to understand…
2023 Markets: Something For Everyone
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -January 11, 2023 With 2022 behind us, Wall Street analysts and investors are doing their best to discern what will happen to markets in 2023. Markets are well off of their 2021 highs, but…
A Few Interesting Charts
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -October 25, 2022 It continues to be a very bad year for most asset classes this year. Here are a few charts that gives us a good idea of where we stand today. They…
What I am Watching
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors August 10th, 2022 Global stocks have bounced significantly off the lows set in mid-June, yet they are still a long way from getting back to where they started the year. Inflation is…
Wealth, War and Wisdom
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors April 25th, 2022 I recently finished reading “Wealth, War and Wisdom” by Barton Biggs (Amazon link: here). This book looks at how various stock markets (US, UK, Germany, France, Japan and others) reacted…
Two Charts to Watch in 2022
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, February 7, 2022 So much has already happened in the financial markets thus far in 2022, it’s hard to pick only a few charts that will help us understand what the rest…
What To Expect In 2022
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, December 15, 2021 With 2021 winding down, all eyes are on what will happen to markets in 2022. Let’s start with the very basic fact that no one knows what the future…