Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP, Author at Yeske Buie

The Elephant in the Economic Recovery Room

Posted Apr. 15, 2021

It. feels. like. everyone. is. talking. about. it. What is “it”, you might ask? Inflation, of course. As the world’s economies recover and the US economy continues its return to its pre-COVID form, policy-makers, investors and economists have set their eyes on inflation as one...

Topics: Economy and Investing

The Stock Market Doesn’t Care Who’s President

Posted Oct. 15, 2020

As you may have heard, there will be an election next month. And in every presidential election year, the same question comes up in our conversations with Clients: how will the outcome of the election affect my portfolio? As we’ve said in the past, while...

Topics: Economy and Investing

When Projections Align with Reality

Posted Oct. 01, 2020

At Yeske Buie, we think of ourselves as financial planners, not just asset managers. With that being said, the process of creating a Client’s financial plan requires us to build a strategy for their investments and to use assumptions about their portfolio’s performance when crafting...

Topics: Financial Planning

QUALIFIED CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS – A Powerful Way to Give

Posted Sep. 21, 2020

Each year, many of our Clients share their charitable intentions with us and we work to ensure they’re able to express those intentions in such a way that they and the charity receive the maximum benefit. Examples of strategies we regularly employ include using Donor...

Topics: Financial Planning

Money Market Fund Focus

Posted Apr. 16, 2020

As part of our strategy in managing the cash holdings in our Clients’ portfolios, Yeske Buie employs a handful of Money Market Funds (MMFs), including: Schwab’s Value Advantage Money Fund (Investor Shares: SWVXX; Ultra Shares: SNAXX) This fund is bought and sold like the other...

Topics: Economy and Investing

The DFA Approach: Maximizing Return and Minimizing Risk

Posted Oct. 31, 2019

It has been said time and again: “markets climb a wall of worry”. The world can be an uncertain place, and investors like to be appropriately compensated for assuming the risk of being stock market participants. DFA (Dimensional Fund Advisors), the mutual fund company that...

Topics: Dimensional Fund Advisors, Economy and Investing, Financial Planning

Turning Your Portfolio into a Paycheck

Posted Oct. 16, 2019

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

Healthy Technology Habits

Posted Jul. 16, 2019

Identity protection has never been a hotter topic, and it seems as if securing your identity is growing more challenging by the day. Hackers, phishers, and identity thieves continue to find new ways to cause security breaches and infiltrate people’s databases, email and financial accounts....

Topics: Cybersecurity, Financial Planning, Yeske Buie Millennial

Portfolio Update: Going Long on Bonds

Posted Jun. 13, 2019

A couple years ago, we decided to take a more conservative approach in our fixed income portfolio and replace DFA’s Five Year Global Bond fund with its One Year Fixed Income fund, which carries an average maturity of less than one year. We made this...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Financial Planning

An Investment Approach That’s Stable, Not Static

Posted Jun. 04, 2019

From an outside perspective, it can be easy to label Yeske Buie’s investment philosophy as “passive.” However, while that descriptor is partly true (i.e. we do not churn the holdings of our Clients’ accounts or turn our approach upside-down based on the latest industry trends...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Yeske Buie Millennial

Author: Yusuf Abugideiri, CFP

The Elephant in the Economic Recovery Room

The Stock Market Doesn’t Care Who’s President

When Projections Align with Reality

QUALIFIED CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS – A Powerful Way to Give

Money Market Fund Focus

The DFA Approach: Maximizing Return and Minimizing Risk

Turning Your Portfolio into a Paycheck

Healthy Technology Habits

Portfolio Update: Going Long on Bonds

An Investment Approach That’s Stable, Not Static

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