Did you miss the hidden story? Did you miss the recent 10% climb of equity markets? The media would have you notice the more sensational headlines about stocks tumbling 2% in one day; however, there are also articles about the markets “fending off the bear”. The media will draw your attention headlines that have you [...]
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The Hidden Story of October
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011The Fall of 2011 – Time to Sell?
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011While this narrative and data was compiled throughout the past week, the market has already begun to fulfill on the knowledge shared in this video. As we’re all aware, there has been a big fall in the market recently, which I refer to as “the fall of 2011”. There was an approximate 16% sell off [...]
Does S&P Downgrade Mean Recession?
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011Double Your Money
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Katie and I were speaking last night with some clients about what a journey the last 2 years have been. An article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spoke about how the S&P 500 has doubled in value since the March 9th, 2009 bottom. Specifically, it took only 707 days to rebound from its March 9th bottom to [...]
Lessons Learned from 2010
Friday, February 11th, 2011I just finished teaching “Retirement Planning” last night at Rollins College. We talked about lessons learned in 2010, and I want to share those with you. There are two lessons to take from 2010. First of all, allocation in different market segments works. We can see here in the last year (2010), U.S. Large or the [...]
WSJ: Stocks Surge as Investors Flee
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010I was teaching last night at Rollins College Retirement Planning Today® and one of the things we talked about is that there are consequences of prudent vs. poor investment philosophy and investment strategies. I spoke to this article in the WSJ in October 1st; this is a review of the third quarter. The chart on the [...]
Wisdom from the Wealthiest
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Sometimes I am amazed at just how timeless wisdom can be. Last night, I was reading an Investment News article titled ‘Record Bonds Inflows Means Stocks Are Screaming By.’ In 2010, so far, a record recorded $185 billion has flowed into bond funds, meanwhile, during that same time; $33 billion of money has flowed out [...]
Money Magazine: Market Timing Perils
Monday, July 12th, 2010I’m starting to notice a pattern here, whenever we see increase volatility in the market, we see an increase number of people asking about market timing. Money Magazine August edition berried in the very, very back cover at the very bottom it has some stats. Very interesting information the problem is you have to know [...]
Bond Expert Bill Gross Recants
Friday, June 25th, 2010I just about came out of my skin yesterday when Katie forwarded me an article. Let’s go back in time, go in the archives to February 2009 did a video on this exact article titled Bill Gross the seven hundred forty seven billion dollar bond man declares the death of equities. Let’s fast-forward to yesterday [...]