When Volatility Arrives, Optimism is Key!
The focus here is on you as an investor! What do you bring to the table in terms of investment experience and personal temperament (emotions) that impacts your investment returns and satisfaction while building your nest egg? October is a seasonal time of the year when investment markets often decline as part of a […]
Bracing For What Comes Next
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, 2020 has been one tough year. Every month I go to write a newsletter, I take a look at what I wrote the month before. For most of this year, I have been writing about COVID-19 cases and how it has affected our health, our society, […]
Put Your Eggs In Many Baskets
When their investment savings plummeted in the 2001 stock market crash, Adam and Sonya were concerned, but not panicked. Retirement was a long way out, so they had plenty of time to recover. The couple decided to try their hand at ‘timing the market’ (buying and selling stocks based on expected market fluctuations) to recover […]
Leaving a Legacy
Recently retired Ross and Penny have an estate planning challenge. They’ve accumulated a comfortable net worth, with a good portion of it in liquid investments. They plan to leave everything to their three adult children, but they also want to help them financially right now. The problem is that all of their children have a […]
