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14 Dec 2018 How to Time the Market

Posted at 12:36h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Jesse Livermore was a stock trader who made his fortune during the 1929 stock market crash, in which he heavily shorted U.S. stocks and then began to buy them up near market lows. On the worst day of the crash, October 29, 1929, Livermore is...

07 Dec 2018 What Are the Markets Telling Us?

Posted at 14:25h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Markets are in a tizzy (a state of nervous excitement or agitation). Investors are asking, is the party over, is the bull market ending or are we just taking a pause? The latest volatility has been set off by 'tariff-tweets,' Fed talk, economic data, and...

30 Nov 2018 Bond Portfolios Have Been Corrupted

Posted at 09:50h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

I happened across this tweet last night: https://twitter.com/syouth1/status/1068262877411401729 If you are unfamiliar with Bill Gross, he founded the mutual fund powerhouse PIMCO and for a long time ran the largest bond fund in the world, PIMCO Total Return. He’s something of a legend in the bond world....

16 Nov 2018 Thanks for Nothing, Headlines

Posted at 13:34h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

We will celebrate Thanksgiving in less than a week, on the 22nd of November (which is, incidentally, the earliest possible date we could celebrate Thanksgiving). You know how it goes when these early ones come around--we are all getting "snuck up on" and "caught off...