Are stock markets ingenious or insane?
Long Term Financial Planning Focus Can Help You Ride Out Volatile Investment Markets You’ve probably heard the expression, “crazy like…
A year’s worth of worthy financial advice
Good advice bears repeating - especially financial advice. Since they’ll likely apply just as well in 2020, here’s a round-up…
Is it Time to Time the Market …this Time?
Has market news got you thinking it might be time to rethink your market positions? It’s certainly understandable if the…
40 Years After the Stock Market Died
An Independent Financial Advisor's Perspective on the Persistent, Rumored Death of the Stock Market Legend has it, 19thcentury humorist Mark Twain once…
What to Do with Excess Cash?
Thanks for keeping your financial planning process questions headed my way. In a recent post, we addressed a retirement planning query. …
What’s on your mind?
Every so often, there are things we just know: The earth is round. Whichever traffic lane you’re in moves the…
Should Investors Buy Individual Stocks?
Individual Stocks are Likely Bad Investments (Speculating) that Result in Underperforming the Market Long-Term In most walks of life, rugged…
Maximizing Your CPP Benefits: 65 Isn’t Always the Answer
As I prepared to write this month’s blog post, I came across an interesting U.S. study exploring how the structure of a…
Three times you might want to change your asset allocation
As we approach year-end, it’s looking as if 2018 may deliver negative returns on equity investments. As we covered here, periodic negative…
Using a Lifestyle Reserve To Ride Out Market Storms
You may have noticed, we seem to be at the beginning, end or middle of an especially rocky ride in…