Compounding – The Eighth Wonder of The World
Legend has it that long ago in India, there lived a Raja who believed that he was wise and fair. He wasn’t. Every year he kept nearly all of the people's rice for himself. Then when famine came, the Raja refused to share the rice, and his people went hungry. A...
The Road Less Traveled
Look closely at the graph below. The grey bars are the annual stock market returns since 1980. The red dots are the mid-year (and transitory) sell-offs. There is a red dot associated with every single year. Yes, even as stocks usually have full-year positive returns,...
Playing the Hand We’re Dealt
The financial and economic world has changed. The US economy and the financial markets are now in a new paradigm where fiscal policies (money creation and government spending), rather than monetary policies (managing the level of interest rates) affect and drive...
What’s Your Edge?
How do you get an investment edge? Is it having the smartest analysts on board who can tear through quarterly SEC financial filings to discover hidden gems of information overlooked by everyone else in the world? No. Is it having high-speed data lines that allow us to...
Ignore Everything!
The hardest work in investing is not intellectual; it's emotional. Benign neglect is, for most investors, the secret of long-term success. - Charley Ellis I read a really good blog post today, written by financial planner Ashby Daniels titled - “TODAY’S...
Put Women in Charge: Empowering Those Strong Women in Your Life
There is no denying that women are different—but in a GOOD way! And what makes us different makes us amazing at some things you wouldn’t even expect (hint…it’s INVESTING). Women have come a long way in terms of education and participation in the workforce, but still...
Why You are NOT Earning as Much as the Market—and How to Fix It
Every year, two firms (Dalbar and Morningstar) analyze how investors perform compared to how the actual investments (markets) perform. Is there need for comparison? If the S&P 500 went up 10%, my account should ALSO be up 10% right? Well—turns out—not really....
Moving from Cash to Investing
When is the best time to plant a tree? In Montgomery’s last blog The Cost of Sitting in Cash, he pointed out the clear evidence that, for long-term investors, the best time to invest is now, and there can be a real cost to sitting in cash. As some clients have asked...
There’s an election coming!
Get ready for the fearless forecasts to start flying. “Every day, investors have to snowshoe their way through a blizzard of propaganda, misinformation, and incomplete and incorrect data. If you respond reflexively to that noise, you’ll do nothing but trade until you...
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