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Is It Time to Get Out of Bonds?
As we referenced in our quarterly letter and blogged about last month, it has been a difficult time in markets with lots of volatility and the usual inverse relationship between stocks and bonds missing with both in negative territory for the year. The causes of this...
The Future of the RMD
Required Minimum Distributions, or RMDs, are distributions that must be made from a retirement account once the account holder reaches a certain age. One of the reasons the RMD exists is to force money that was originally tax-deferred to go through the tax system....
Should You Chase Dividend Stocks to Combat Inflation & Rate Hikes?
(By Mia Huang, CFA, Senior Associate, Dimensional Fund Advisors. Learn more about Dimensional Fund Advisors here. The original post was published on April 5, 2022 and can be found here.) KEY TAKEAWAYS With inflation at its highest level in decades and the US Federal...
Preparing for What Comes Next
TAAG’s Wednesday morning blog has posted each week since 2009, and many of them have been inspired by client experiences. This week’s topic is based on a client’s specific request, and to quote him directly, ‘people need to prepare.’ We spend most of our time helping...
The Case for a Career in the Skilled Trades
My father is a third-generation home builder in Louisville. I remember weekend days as a young child going to “check the jobs” with my dad. I was always excited when the “check” required more than a drive by. This meant I was able to go onto a jobsite and witness...
Strange Times
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...
529 Investment Options
Shortly after my daughter was born, I opened a direct* 529 account for her through Ohio College Advantage. The entire process, not including the time it took to review the investment options, took about ten minutes. The most time-consuming part of the process was...
All Eyes on the Fed? A Look at Federal Funds Rate, Bond Return, and Term Premium
(By Mingzhe Yi, PhD, Researcher, Dimensional Fund Advisors. Learn more about Dimensional Fund Advisors here. The original post was published on March 15, 2022 and can be found here.) KEY TAKEAWAYS The prospect of an increase in the federal funds rate has raised...
Should You Do Something?
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...
Assessing the Impact of the War in Ukraine
I’d be wrong to write about the relatively trivial topics of investments, economics, and financial planning without first acknowledging the tragic set of circumstances playing out in Ukraine. As is the case with any war, it’s incredibly sad to see the loss of life...
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