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…
Where The Smart Money Is Headed In a recent Barron’s article titled, “Where the Smart Money is Headed,” reporter Beverly Goodman highlights mutual fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors’ success in attracting a growing number of financial advisors who seek to invest their clients’ money in…
Advice to an Incoming College Freshman Congratulations on making it to college! All that hard work in high school has finally paid off and you now have the privilege of being launched on your college career and your first chance to live on your own…
What Happened to DOMA and What’s Next? On June 26, in United States v Windsor, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional, declaring that, if the citizens of a state voted to recognize and protect a class…