It’s conventional wisdom these days: Stocks follow oil. However, stocks used to follow gold and euro and, before that, Greece. Stocks and oil trade together until they don’t. Hang in there. Stocks are still cheap. Check out Brian Westbury on his latest video. [Read more…]
Investing Isn’t Hard
The Ant & the Cricket
The fable of the ant and the cricket provides an excellent message. [Read more…]
That Was Fun … Let’s Do It Again
Panic, Fear & Asteroids
by Richard E. Reyes, CFP
Here we go again. What’s going on and what you have to do now. If you have no idea what you are doing, and worse yet, your financial advisor has no idea what you are doing, CALL ME! If you have no plan, no process, or no idea – CALL ME.
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Order of Return Risk
by Richard E. Reyes, CFP
THE DAY YOU RETIRE AND START TAKING MONEY OUT OF A PORTFOLIO, ALL THE RULES CHANGE AND AVERAGE RETURNS DON’T MATTER. This statement goes against what most retirees think. The day you retire there is only one thing that matters and that is the order of returns. [Read more…]
What about Greece
Having A Trans (Identity) Problem?
by Richard E. Reyes, CFP
We live in a time of confusion. Recent news headlines have created a national conversation on terms like transracial and transgender. I meet with confused people all the time, but the worst are those that have a financial identity crisis. [Read more…]
The Greatest of All Risks
The 90% Solution
by Richard E. Reyes, CFP
Why are investors and financial advisors so consumed with market timing and stock selection when it makes up less than 10% of where your returns come from? Here is the 90% that is actually important. [Read more…]