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…
It’s about that time of year. If you are participating in holiday shopping and/or gift giving, here are four ways to take the bite out of the bill… 1. Spend Wisely If you are going to spend your hard-earned dollars, make sure that you are doing…
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 others that must be addressed first, including…
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…
We’ve spent the past two decades discussing with our clients the insights we’ve gained from studying the work of Eugene Fama, University of Chicago professor and one of the fathers of Modern Portfolio Theory. Over that time, we frequently found ourselves referring to him as a “future…
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…