Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP, Author at Yeske Buie

Turning Your Portfolio into a Paycheck

Posted Sep. 18, 2025

As our Clients approach retirement and prepare to begin making distributions from their portfolio to meet their spending needs, we often hear questions like these: How much can I safely spend from my portfolio in retirement? How will I know if I’m heading for trouble?...

Topics: Financial Planning

Mid-Year Reflections from the CIO

Posted Jul. 03, 2025

[Editor’s Note: Yusuf’s mid-year reflections were written and submitted on July 1, nearly a week after our internal deadline and yet, somehow, right on time.] As our family was wrapping up breakfast this morning, Maegan was standing at the Abugideiri Family Calendar on the wall...

Topics: Economy and Investing, YeBu® News & Events

Built For This

Posted Apr. 10, 2025

So much has happened since we last checked in (less than a week ago!) that we thought we’d connect with you again to share a few words that we hope will provide some comfort. First, on markets and your portfolio (but only because that’s what’s...

Topics: Economy and Investing

The World Is(n’t) Ending – A Walk Down Memory Lane

Posted Apr. 09, 2025

We’d like to begin this piece by acknowledging that it is scary out there – this year has been challenging for a number of reasons. To paraphrase Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., it feels like the end of the world as we know it…...

Topics: Economy and Investing

More Tariff Talk – Markets Do What Markets Do

Posted Apr. 03, 2025

Just over 24 hours ago, President Trump finally unveiled his plans for reciprocal tariffs, providing more clarity about the thing investors have been most anxious about over the past few weeks (or at least the thing that’s been getting the most attention if you’ve been...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Talking Tariffs – To Tune In or Tune Out?

Posted Mar. 10, 2025

Well, he followed through on his promise. He being President Trump, and the promise being levying tariffs on the US’s top trading partners (China, Mexico, and Canada), with promises of more on the horizon (reciprocal tariffs with our other trading partners). Since enacting the tariffs...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Tariff-ied? Our Touchstones in a Time of Trading Turbulence

Posted Feb. 14, 2025

At Yeske Buie, we don’t make predictions about markets or the economy. But we can say with a high degree of confidence that you’re going to be hearing the word “tariff” a lot over the coming four years (and perhaps the words “inflation” and “interest...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Investing Lessons from Fantasy Football

Posted Jan. 28, 2025

It is estimated that over 50 million Americans played fantasy football last season, with projections for this year’s season to be even more popular. If you didn’t play in a fantasy football league (or multiple) this year, then you almost certainly know someone who played....

Topics: Economy and Investing, Yeske Buie Millennial

A Message from the Chief Investment Officer

Posted Oct. 18, 2024

Dear Yeske Buie Community, Earning the trust to play the role of Chief Investment Officer at Yeske Buie is the greatest honor of my professional life (and in the spirit of transparency, the only greater honor in my life is being trusted with the livelihood...

Topics: YeBu® News & Events

Tantrums – What Markets and Toddlers Have in Common

Posted Aug. 15, 2024

What a ride we’ve been on so far in the month of August. To start, we went through three consecutive days of nastiness in markets as investors digested: A softer-than-expected jobs report (yet still positive, in excess of 100,000 new jobs); Rising interest rates in...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Author: Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP

Turning Your Portfolio into a Paycheck

Mid-Year Reflections from the CIO

Built For This

The World Is(n’t) Ending – A Walk Down Memory Lane

More Tariff Talk – Markets Do What Markets Do

Talking Tariffs – To Tune In or Tune Out?

Tariff-ied? Our Touchstones in a Time of Trading Turbulence

Investing Lessons from Fantasy Football

A Message from the Chief Investment Officer

Tantrums – What Markets and Toddlers Have in Common

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