“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” Winston Churchill Next month will mark my 40th year in the financial advice business. I thought this might be a good opportunity to share some insights gained from four decades of counseling...
When debating whether stocks are cheap or expensive, most Wall Street analysts use the S&P 500’s historical price-to-earnings ratio to support their argument. The P/E ratio is a measure of how valuable corporate earnings are to market participants. The more...
4 years That’s how long it’s been since we’ve had a normal environment for investing. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, but considering everything we’ve been through, I wouldn’t argue that it feels longer for you. In December of 2019, our economy had been in...
Nothing confuses people more than trying to understand what’s happening in “the market” these days. To make sense of it, you first have to understand two very simple distinctions. First off, “the stock market” is what the media refers to as one big ball of publicly...
Imagine you are presented with the following opportunity: An Olympic-sized swimming pool is filled with plastic Easter eggs, around 64,000 of them. Most eggs contain nothing, but a small number (2.4%) include $100 dollar bills. If you were allowed to select 100 of...
In our recent reading, we ran across some pearls of wisdom from investment manager Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital. Marks ranks right up there with Warren Buffett as a voice to heed on investment philosophy. (He’s on Forbes list of billionaires.) We thought we’d...
