Toasting for a Cause
Click to View the Loaves & Fishes Toasting for a Cause Photo Gallery Toasting for a Cause is an annual fundraiser and one that our community of supporters anxiously looks forward to. Each year we host the event at local restaurant….
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Advisors, Investors, and Gamma: 4 Ways to Quantify Your Value
Two studies, one from Morningstar and another from Vanguard, help advisors show clients—in cold, hard percentage points—how much their expertise and guidance is actually boosting investment returns. In our current fee-sensitive environment, advisors are forced to communicate (and defend) their…
How to Get a 10474% Return
How would you like a 10,474% return on your investment dollar? Here is how you could have achieved that seemingly amazing number. If you had invested $1000 in Aluminum Company of America (now Alcoa) in 1917 you would now have…
Investing Trends: Emerging Markets
If you are a US based investor, you can be forgiven for ignoring Emerging Market stocks over the last few years. Investors tend to gravitate towards good returns and Emerging Market returns have been anything but good in recent years. …
Statistics Show…
I remember picking up my one and a half year old daughter from her nanny’s house a few years ago. I walked into the backyard to find my daughter climbing a tall “jungle gym” – the nanny was watching from…
Term Life Insurance: How Much Do I Need?
For the purposes of this article, I am only going to focus on how to help you find the right “face value” and “term” of your insurance policy. If you would like more detail on why you might need term…
What Is The Point Of Bonds?
I think investors often miss the point of bonds in a portfolio. And not just individual investors – pension funds, financial advisors and portfolio managers are guilty as well. In my opinion, the role of bonds in a diversified portfolio…
Investing Backwards
Investing backwards is easy. Here is how it works: you take a look at a stock/mutual fund/asset class/allocation that has performed very well over the last few years and that’s where you invest. Done. Super easy. The problem is that…
Diamonds
I often meet people with investment accounts at Edward Jones, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, etc. When they learn that I am an Independent Financial Advisor the next question is usually this: “how are you different from my guy at insert…