by taaginc | Apr 12, 2017 | Financial Planning, Investment Management
(from Dimensional Fund Advisors’ Outside the Flags blog by Jim Parker dated February 2017. Jim is a Vice President with DFA, leading the communications and marketing team in the firms’ Australian office.) Ever ridden in a car with worn-out shock absorbers? Every...
by taaginc | Jun 1, 2016 | Behavioral Investing
While we never pretend to have the ability to forecast where markets, interest rates or much of anything is going in the future, we can certainly analyze where we’ve been and make assumptions as to why. The first five months of 2016 proved just how fickle markets can...
by taaginc | Feb 10, 2016 | Investment Management
This past Sunday the Denver Broncos, led by one of the NFL’s all-time greatest quarterbacks, were crowned champions of Super Bowl 50. They won the game just as they had won so many others this season, relying almost exclusively on their league leading defense...
by taaginc | Jan 28, 2015 | Investment Management
2014 and the first month of 2015 have told two different tales of the ups and downs of diversification. In 2014, U.S. large company performance was strong, but dragged down by poor performance in international and emerging market companies. So far this year, the...
by taaginc | Dec 24, 2014 | Behavioral Investing, Investment Management
RE: Market!! What on Earth is going on these last few days?? The email I received from a client two weeks ago above did a great job of summing up the feelings of many people who have watched the movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past several weeks....