Our Top 4 Must Reads from November 2014

This month’s edition features articles that focus on the growing dissatisfaction of having foreign investments in your portfolio, how economic slumps in the past have influenced our progress, and the data-driven process of forecasting recessions. One of the links this…

Our Top 4 Must Reads from October 2014

Ranking near the top of our day-to-day tasks is the research we do for our investment strategy. Within this process, we discover many thought-provoking pieces that communicate a topic in a unique or unconventional way.  Many of these articles we…

Why Do We Bother Setting Goals?

Well it’s in our DNA. The fact is we live in an aspirational society where we are very interested in becoming better versions of ourselves. The numbers back this up.  Just type “Setting Goals” in a Google search and you…

Target Date Mutual Funds

The Truth About 401k Target-Date Funds

Many individuals investing on their own are now using target-date funds in their 401ks. Target-date funds generally have an asset allocation (stocks, bonds and cash) based on your expected retirement date with the expectation that risk is lowered as you…

Spending More Time on Things You Enjoy

Now that I have two daughters under the age of 3, I don’t get out to the golf course very often.  Let’s just say there have not been a plethora of great shots recently. As I was reflecting on one…

Emerging Markets Outperformance?

In our recent mailing about the CAPE formula, we discussed how we use this valuation measure in our investment outlook strategy.  The graph below (Graph 1) demonstrates that when an asset class is undervalued there are high correlations with stronger…

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