Should you invest in the market or pay down debt? Read more…
New President, Same Portfolio: Why the Election Shouldn’t Impact Your Investments
Few topics in America are as polarizing as politics. With the presidential election as the embodiment of political discord, it’s no wonder last night’s results have caused such a stir. Read more…
What's the Biggest Mistake Investors Make?
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…
Lessons Investors Can Learn from Their Fantasy Football Teams
The 2016 National Football League season is finally here. Productivity nose-dives while friendly competition increases between friends as nearly 60 million people across the US and Canada begin their first week of fantasy football. Despite the difference in scale, financial markets and fantasy Read more…
Emerging Markets: Worth a Closer Look
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10 Investing Tips From Successful Women
Women are empowered in so many ways today, but unfortunately, finance is not among the top categories. The concept of gender equality still has a ways to go in the investment world. Read more…
Definition of Key Terms
Index Fund An index fund is a mutual fund whose portfolio seeks to replicate the performance of some financial benchmark either by owning a representative sample of the stocks contained in that benchmark or by owning all of them. An index is passively managed which means, unlike actively managed Read more…
The Failure of Active Management
For the past 11 years, the S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) Scorecard has been the de facto scorekeeper of the active versus passive debate, and last month they released their mid-year update. Below is a graphic of active funds that failed to beat their respective index. As you can see, the 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…
