by taaginc | Feb 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
In my last blog, I talked about the challenge I had booking a vacation because of its cost and my nerves around spending the money. Well, I’m happy to report that I booked that vacation and am just returning from a glorious week in the Turks & Caicos. Worth...
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 | Nov 19, 2014 | Behavioral Investing, Financial Education, Investment Management
(from Seth Godin’s blog dated 10/27/2014. Click here for the original post. Seth is the author of 17 books that have been bestsellers around the world and translated into more than 35 languages. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas...
by taaginc | Jun 25, 2013 | Behavioral Investing
The most difficult aspect of investing is fighting our emotional response to information on a daily basis. Negative numbers reported on our TV screens, a golfing buddy who tells us he got out just before the market began falling in 2007, and announcements from Federal...
by taaginc | Jun 5, 2012 | Retirement
My husband, Tom, and I just returned from Asheville, North Carolina. We drove to Asheville so Tom could participate in a century ride to raise money for cancer research with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program. Being the diligent planner, I...