I thought it was time to address some of the gloom and doom that has so dominated the news of late. Not, by the way, with the intent of dispelling it (or supporting it, for that matter) but more with the aim of addressing the question…
The reason that this issue of the Live Big Digest is titled “Vacation Edition” is that we’re taking this opportunity to give you a heads up about some upcoming travel on the part of Elissa and Dave. They’ll be leaving for Europe at the end…
Rather than boring you with more talk about the uneven course of the economy and the markets, which inevitably stumble forward through a ceaseless series of advances and declines. And rather than sharing the latest comments of Ben Bernanke as he reports on the fundamental underlying strength of the…
As of yesterday, the stock market managed to cross the magic 10% threshold into an official “correction.” Thank God. Markets never move in a straight line and some kind of correction is always inevitable. Nice to have this out of the way for now. The…
It seems appropriate that Mother’s Day is upon us as stock market gyrations are making everyone cry out for Mommy. Of course, we know that the market progresses in fits and starts, with any extended rise likely to be followed by a setback. This one…
Tomorrow is May Day, the day Dave dons cap and gown, and the 20th anniversary of Yeske Buie. We thought with that kind of convergence, we’d celebrate with another edition of the Live Big® Digest. How, you may well ask, can we have a 20th…
With Tax Day finally in the rear-view mirror, we thought we’d celebrate with another edition of the Live Big® Digest. The Hot Hand The cover of BusinessWeek’s April 19 issue declares that “Obamanomics is working better than you think,” and then goes on to state, “polls say the economy is…
As another weekend approaches, we decided that it was time for another edition of Yeske Buie’s Weekend Digest. This week’s issue reports on a personal milestone, recent media coverage, and the significance of market milestones. Have a great weekend! The Yeske Buie Team. Dr. Dave…
With the stock market serving up a little pre-Halloween scare, it seemed like a good time to offer up another edition of the Weekend Digest. From Jeremy Siegel’s defense of “market efficiency” to a discussion of how the demographics of the X and Y generations…
In this column, we ask prominent financial advisers who use mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to share model portfolios with us. Mr. Yeske, 52 years old, founded financial-planning firm Yeske & Co. in 1990 and last year merged it with Financial Planning Group of Vienna, Va., to form Yeske Buie. Mr. Yeske is a former chairman of the Financial Planning Association and is an instructor of financial planning at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Yeske Buie manages about $300 million for some 200 clients, primarily individuals.