A Different Dimension Nobelist Gene Fama and Dimensional Fund Advisors have drawn favorable attention lately with both a cover feature in Barron’s and an appreciation in Morningstar. That certainly seems like a lot of attention to be lavished on a mutual fund company. In her article,…
As we prepare this edition of the Digest, we’re hoping that you had a great end to 2013 and celebrated the start to 2014 with your close family and friends. The end of one year and the beginning of another is a great time to…
As we prepare this edition of the Digest, we’re hoping that you’ll have the opportunity to take a restful break in the final days of 2013. The end of the year is always a time to reflect upon all that has transpired in our lives…
Managing Risk in a Rising Stock Market U.S. stock indices have been hitting new highs in recent weeks, prompting many to ask if the market has become “overpriced” and, if so, what can we do to mitigate risk? In order to answer these questions, there are several…
Investment Update – Going Short (Really Short!) No, we haven’t decided to short the stock market — not by a long-shot! — but we have decided to shorten the average maturity of our bond holdings. We’re doing this by swapping all of the DFA 5-Year Global…
Yeske Buie Celebrates Eugene Fama’s Nobel Prize in Economics On October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it had awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences to Eugene Fama, along with Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller “for their empirical analysis of…
Elissa Awarded Financial Planning Profession’s Highest Honor The Financial Planning Association (FPA®) awarded the profession’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, the P. Kemp Fain Jr. award, to Elissa Buie, CFP®, CEO of Yeske Buie.“The award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to…
Debt, Deficits, and Default: Dancing with Disaster The government has now been “shut down” for 11 days and we face the further threat of a default if Congress fails to raise the U.S. debt limit within a week. While the former is painful, ever more so the longer…
The Science of Happiness – An Experiment in Gratitude We’ve spent some time lately looking into the “science of happiness” as explained by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener (Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth) and Rick Hanson (Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of…
Top 8 Things You Need To Know About The New Health Insurance Marketplaces With enrollment opening up October 1, we offer highlights of the new health insurance marketplaces created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the top eight things you need to…