Between Greed and Fear: A Prudent Financial Path

Many of us arrive at adulthood with little to no formal education regarding investment management. How much financial management is taught in school or even college? Yet most of us eventually find ourselves owners of a 401(k) or similar self-directed retirement plan. Where do we start? Parenthetically, that is, in part, where I formed my…

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Silicon Valley Bank: A Perspective

We’re following the story of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday March 10.  While this is the largest bank failure since 2008, it’s not that unusual for a regional bank to fail.  Between 2016-2020 there were 16 bank failures, half of which occurred prior to the pandemic.  SVB was a large player in…

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Russia, Ukraine, and Your Portfolio’s Path Forward

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on top of inflation concerns in the US and elsewhere, markets have recently been subject to greater volatility as well as declines in value. “Markets,” a term used to describe all global investors, price assets based on available information and the implications they derive from it. It’s reasonable, then, for…

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