by Jeannette Jones | Sep 14, 2022 | Investment Management, Personal Stories
Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary. That number sounds ridiculously high to me, because I clearly remember celebrating my parent’s and grandparents’ 50th anniversaries, and we’re getting very close. It also got me thinking about how...
by Chip Workman | Aug 31, 2022 | Debt, Investment Management
As you may have heard last week, President Biden made some announcements involving sweeping changes to our student debt system. There is still a way to go before we see exactly how this plays out, but as it impacts nearly 43 million Americans, we thought it would be...
by Jeannette Jones | Jul 6, 2022 | Investment Management, Personal Stories
Over the weekend I stopped by a bakery to find the lights off and a handwritten sign taped to the window – “Due to staff shortages we have shortened our hours and will be closed…” A visit to a drycleaner later that day delivered the same result. While shopping for...
by Chip Workman | Apr 6, 2022 | Investing & Markets, Investment Management
Most of the time, stocks and bonds have an inverse relationship, meaning when stocks rise, bond prices fall, or at least rise at a significantly slower pace and vice versa. This allows for a nice counterbalance to risk in portfolios and is the cornerstone of broader...
by Jeannette Jones | Mar 16, 2022 | Investment Management
We’ve had a few rough years beginning with Covid and all the changes it forced on us, followed by daily feeds of death and destruction in Ukraine on social media today. Labor and material shortages caused by a variety of factors sparked inflation last year, and the...
by Jeannette Jones | Feb 9, 2022 | Investing & Markets, Investment Management
Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Tesla and Meta (Facebook) have dominated investing discussions and been the primary drivers behind the Nasdaq and S&P 500 returns in recent years. Their outperformance vs. other companies have led some to experience...