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Sep 23

Risk Hides in Complacency

By Steve DeBoth Blog

We humans aren’t great at evaluating risk. Take the person who habitually texts while driving. We all know that’s a risk, but we have a way of rationalizing behavior like that. Texting on a country road doesn’t carry the risk of texting in front of a school, and texting while driving alone doesn’t carry the risk of texting with children in the car, for example. Our brains find ways to give us permission, and I’m sure the person texting with kids in the car WHILE driving through a school zone also finds a way to give themselves the permission to…

May 16

Certainty

By Casey Clarke Blog

One of the things we’re heavily deficient in these days is certainty. Whether one views current events as good, bad, or indifferent, most would agree that the ability to predict where we’ll be in six to twelve months with any confidence is more difficult than it’s been in quite some time. This is anxiety-provoking, and as homo-sapiens, we don’t like to feel anxious or scared. Fear leads to poorly calculated decisions, and bad investment decisions, especially when made repeatedly, can set one back irreparably on their financial path. As ephemeral as it might be to obtain in reality, the perception…

Apr 15

Market Fireworks – What Now?

By Casey Clarke Blog

As of the moment I’m rapping on these keys, the market as measured by the S&P 500 is down roughly -5% so far this year, with its peak to trough drop of around -12% happening from mid-February through mid-March. That’s been enough to get some people anxious that declining portfolio balances could get worse, while others, with plenty of support from financial media, are viewing this decline as an opportunity to buy more of their favorite stocks cheaper. Only time will tell which group is correct with respect to this particular decline and over a short timeframe, but as we…

Apr 12

Ask Cadence: Where are the safe places to invest if I’m nervous about the stock market?

By Cadence WM Blog

As a reminder, there are no completely safe places to invest, as nearly all investments have the potential to lose value at times, but there are almost always some investments that are relatively safer than others. The first step in the process is to identify those places that are most expensive and therefore present the most risk of loss over longer holding periods. Currently those are the world’s stock markets, particularly the US stock market. The next step is to identify those places that offer more value from a risk/reward standpoint and that have a better chance of holding their…

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