Written By: Dave Yeske, CFP® and Lauren Stansell, CFP® Back in August of 2015 markets around the world had gotten choppy after a period of extended calm and some were asking what was up and what was next. We offered the Weekend Chart Challenge as…
The stock market has become much more volatile in recent weeks and months and we thought we’d offer a brief perspective. First, we know you’ve seen the headlines that market performance last year was the worst in a decade, based on the S&P 500. That…
OK, let’s be honest, we never really know what the stock and bond markets are telling us in real time. It is only after the fact, with the benefit of hindsight, that we know what the signal meant. The economy and the financial markets are…
In Jason Zweig’s latest Wall Street Journal offering “The ‘Dumb’ Money Is Bailing on U.S. Stocks. That’s Smart.” he makes the case that “now more than ever, investors need to consider investing in overseas stock markets.” His argument is based on the observation that no…
Emerging markets (EM) have been in the news lately, in part because stock markets in those countries have been falling in recent months (for reasons we’ll discuss further) but also because of crises and disruptions occurring in a handful of specific countries. The New York…
If you asked a room of 100 people to define the “perfect” investment, you may not get 100 answers, but you’d certainly get more than one. And more than one answer may be correct! The criteria for judging the merits of an investment include the…
We’ve had a bit of a bumpy ride over the past two months as market volatility, strangely absent last year, has come roaring back. We think it’s all going to be fine (you knew we were going to say that) but it doesn’t mean we…
As was surely inevitable, volatility has returned to the markets after an historically quiescent couple of years. As this is being written, markets in Europe are down nearly 5% after a similar drop in the US on Monday. What should we make of this and…