Portfolio Rebalancing: The Dull Discipline
The famed economist John Maynard Keynes once quipped: “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Or employed. Or happily married. It’s easy to get complacent when we watch our account balance increase during the great melt up over the past...
Proposed Tax and Planning Updates
I spent 2 days last week at a continuing education conference with Ed Slott & Company. This is my third year in the program. Slott has been a thought leader in retirement and distribution planning for over thirty years. My Master Elite membership gives me full...
Portfolio Strategy Review Q3 2021
"I hope I never recover from this." William Shatner on his journey into space at age 90 Reflation, inflation, or deflation….that was so last quarter. This quarter “stagflation” also began to gain attention. Stagflation evokes fear of the 1970’s when inflation was...
Social Security Ain’t Going Broke!
Social Security Status: Ignore the Headline Hype Social Security issued its Annual Trustees report on August 31. The report discussed the long-term financial status of the program. However, different media sources report the same data in very different ways. Some...
Medicare Nightmares
Plan Enrollment Errors: Advance Planning is Good Medicine Combine the federal government with the US tax and healthcare systems and what do you get? One very complicated maze of rules and regulations called Medicare! Medicare’s complex rules are confusing and can...
Portfolio Strategy Review Q2 2021
“A nickel isn't worth a dime anymore.” Yogi Berra Reflation, inflation, or deflation. How about a libation and we call it good? The range of opinions about the future direction of prices we pay for goods and services leaves us with one concern: Are recent price...
The Three Most Important Investment Decisions
The Three Most Important Investment Decisions Many investors believe active stock picking, choosing the hottest fund, or timing the market is the best path to achieve wealth. Yet many well documented studies indicate this path produces poor results that are caused by...
Portfolio Strategy Review Q1 2021
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra The consistent theme in these quarterly reports is that sound strategy prioritizes your goals and gives you even greater odds to grow and protect your wealth. Many investment calories...
Is Cryptocurrency Here to Stay?
There has been a lot of controversy and disagreement on the viability of cypto assets like Bitcoin. It's been called the next "store of value" (akin to gold), a highly secure medium of exchange, an innovative piece of computer science, as well as an energy intensive,...
Portfolio Strategy Review 2020
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln The year 2020 is over. Good riddens. A year we will never forget. A Bull market for stocks. A bear market for people. The...
