BUSINESS PEOPLE MUCH LESS CONCERNED ABOUT REGS AND TAXES
The percentage of small businesses citing Taxes or Regulation as their number one problem is at an 8-year low. https://t.co/PofU9phAzD pic.twitter.com/CdRJ5qHPxN — Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) March 13, 2018
POSITIVE EARNINGS ESTIMATE REVISIONS HIT TEN YEAR HIGH
Chart of the Day:We’ve been noting recently that bullish sentiment from the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) has finally exceeded 50% after nearly three years below that level. In today’s Chart of the Day, we wanted to highlight another sentiment... Read More →
Riding the Wave for the Next 20 Years
The Golden Age of the Digital Revolution We argue that this environment of uneasiness and uncertainty is what a long-term secular bull market should resemble. Fred Rogers and Richard Lalich in their 2014 book, Ride the Wave, How 12 Technologies... Read More →
Value Investing: Back to the Garden
In the beginning, there was the idea of investment – straightforward, unconstrained investment – whose goal was to maximize long-term after-tax returns…PERIOD It was a simpler, happier time when the essence of investment was to seek out value; to buy... Read More →
Ready for the next stock market crash?
After nine years since the last crash ended, can you afford even one devastating year? The devastation to portfolios is often ugly when the stock market crashes. We have experienced two major market meltdowns in the last 17 years. One... Read More →
Use These Stock Investing Tips to be An Even Better Investor in 2016
Start the New Year right with a resolution that will benefit you for 2016 and beyond: be smart with your investments! Here are three essential stock investing tips. 1. Stay the course. Impatience with the stock market can lead to... Read More →
3 Financial Myths That Mystify Simple Investing Principles
10,000+ mutual funds. 1,400+ ETFs. CDOs, MBSs, and MLPs… WTF?! Investing seems to be getting more and more complicated. But basic investing principles are just as important as ever. Spend less than you make. Start saving early. Don’t panic! Of... Read More →
Investment Fees: ValueAligned Folio Accounts Cheaper than the Biggest Brokers’
Mirror, mirror on the wall, do I pay the smallest fees of all? Thanks to Personal Capital’s new report, The Real Cost of Fees, you can finally answer that question. Defining the Real Cost of Investment Fees For its new... Read More →
Beating Emotional Investing: A Little More Mr. Spock, a Little Less Dr. McCoy
It’s why you’re happy to scour the Internet for Bachelorette spoilers weeks before the finale… It’s why you’re willing to watch talking heads jabber away for months before the Big Game even starts… And it’s also why you recently lost... Read More →
Ignore the Scary Stock Market Headlines. Read This Instead.
Dear Friend, The stock market is going down and to that I yell “It’s about time!”. We are investors and we want to buy stocks of good companies at discounts to their intrinsic values. Those discounts had disappeared over the... Read More →