Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Midwest Private Wealth Forum in Chicago on a range of equity market topics. One of my favorite questions asked was: “What is the biggest mistake you see investors making?” Read more…
Summary: 5 Steps to Financial Wellness
Women's Initiative founder Sara Gelsheimer shares her personal experience with giving. We strive for wellness across all aspects of our life. We take the steps necessary to be well: we eat healthier, we take the stairs – not the elevator, sometimes, and we even take time to focus on ourselves. All Read more…
Who Can Benefit from an ABLE Account?
All families face challenges when funding the various needs of their children. But many families face a completely different challenge—planning for a child with a disability. The importance of saving and planning increases tremendously when faced with such a challenge. Read more…
College Freshmen: 3 Things I Wish I Knew
Pick a dorm. Sign up for classes. Buy a laptop. As a recent college graduate, I can remember going through my checklist of everything I needed prior to my college move (on top of all the pieces of advice my parents were attempting to engrain in me). Read more…
Democrats vs. Republicans: Who Is Better for the Stock Market?
Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Have you ever wondered whether the stock market does better when the President of the United States is a Republican or Democrat? Read more…
Post-College Finances: What Recent Grads Need to Know
It’s that time of year. Universities all over the globe are sending their 2016 graduates out into the “real world. Unfortunately, post-grad life comes with some serious financial struggles. With unprecedented amounts of student loan debt, low wage growth and the new era of needing a subscription Read more…
Brexit: A Demonstration of Markets at Work
Every crisis has one thing in common: it eventually ends. Read more…
The Collective Knowledge of Markets
Meet Penelope the cow. NPR’s Planet Money asked the internet how much Penelope weighed and got 17,205 responses. The average of all the responses was 1,287 pounds and the actual weight was 1,355 pounds. The average was off by only five percent. This experiment, which was originally conducted in Read more…
Stock Market Correction
I wrote an article at the beginning of the summer titled Volatility is Not the Enemy. I remember thinking it would be the perfect article for whenever the market had a correction. Since it had been nearly four years since the last correction, I figured it should be published and referred back to Read more…
