Lowest Cost States: Should We Move to Reduce Costs in Retirement? Financial media love to create lists of the “best” and “lowest cost” states to retire in. This week we answer a question about the…
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Even though the global stock and bond markets feel relatively calm as I write this, there’s been a whole heck of a lot that happened in Q1. In no particular order, we saw: A mob…
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We’re now nearly a full month into 2021, and stocks, bonds, and virtually all other asset classes continue to post excellent returns. The question is…..why? We’re at a point where the market seems to be…
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With the election right around the corner, Q3 was another hot quarter for global capital markets. U.S. stocks appreciated considerably, and the bond market’s outlook for the economy improved as the yield curve steepened. At…
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Well that was an interesting quarter. The second quarter of 2020 brought us the fastest selloff into a bear market in history, which subsequently turned out to be one of the shortest in history. Equities…
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Well here we are….one quarter into 2020, and the risk event we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived. Volatility as measured by the VIX Index touched all time highs over the first quarter as…
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Picture what you were doing on January 1st of 2019. Maybe you were getting an early start on your fitness goals for the year. Maybe you were up early, ready to take in some New…
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