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Portfolio Strategy Review 2022

Overview The reset of 2022 was a painful reminder that investment fads and cycles can shift direction with little warning. Diversification helps mitigate risk, but it isn’t perfect. Bonds typically...

Portfolio Strategy Review Q3 2022

Overview The primary financial headline is the same: Inflation is over 8.0%; Interest rates are still rising. With a lot of political and economic drama beneath the surface. In the time honored...

Portfolio Strategy Review Q2 2022

Overview The second quarter continued the negative trends that we saw in the first quarter. Interest rates and inflation increased, though there has been recent price relief in the housing, energy,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Portfolio Strategy Review Q3 2020

“A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.”—Napoleon Most major economies appear to be coming out of recession. Many economists believe the worst is behind us. Yet not all sectors of the economy have rebounded....

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Portfolio Strategy Review Q2 2020

‘’History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Mark Twain An historic quarter in many respects. A Pandemic. Race Riots. A Trade War. Political Chaos. Yet the market so far looks like a “V” recovery. The best quarter since 1998. While the economy appears more...

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Portfolio Strategy Review Q1 2020

 When Will We Get Back to Normal The longest bull market in history had been on virtual cruise control since 2009. In March it gave way to the fastest bear market crash in history. Market volatility returned with a vengeance as investors seek to gauge the depth and...

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Search for Winners

Search for Winners: Skill, Hype, or Hope (Hint: go to Amazon for your fiction) Mutual funds were first formed in 1924. Their original intent was to provide the investing public with broad access to the market. The idea was good at the time, despite a steep 8%...

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When the Message is Clear

I was doing a 401k education and enrollment session at one of the health care clinics I service. One of the attendees was especially attentive and she was taking very detailed notes. After finishing the presentation, she approached me for some more information. “I...

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Big-Brand Boilerplate Solution

A common misconception is that a big brand name financial adviser gives you safety, more resources, and a better outcome for your investment dollars. The set of facts below looks at the reality of big company business models. Corporations look for economies of scale...

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