When a jetliner flies from London Heathrow to New York JFK, the aircraft doesn’t just arrive at an altitude of 35,000 feet and drop directly onto the runway.
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We live at the apex of human civilization. We carry trillions of bits of high-quality data in our pockets at all times. Despite these advantages, our decision-making process evolved little since our days as tribal “hunter-gathers.?
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When a client retires, we split their portfolio into three buckets: Risk Assets, Fixed Income, and Near Cash. We invest the client’s assets such that the Risk Bucket represents 60-70% of their portfolio, invested in faster growing but volatile US and international equities.
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Whether a family works with a financial planner or wealth advisor or manages their investments directly, everyone can benefit from purpose-based asset allocation. With purpose-based asset allocation, we avoid holding our financial assets in a single account but rather invest our assets while taking multiple needs into consideration.
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There is great value in not putting too much money on any single idea, trade, or investment. A risk management advisor taught me this at the very beginning of my career. Dividing capital into a minimum of 10, maybe 20, even 40 positions is the better route to take.
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David Edwards, President and Wealth Advisor and Buff Parham of Parham Associates presented a webinar Sunday, December 19th at 6PM EST.
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David Edwards and Buff Parham presented a 30 minute overview of development over the past year in Economics and the Pandemic, and made projections about Stocks, Interest Rates, and Politics for the year to come.
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If you sell a stock less than a year from the time you bought it, your gains are subject to an income tax rate of as much as 35%. If you hold for more than a year, your earnings are reclassified as capital gains and are thereby subject to a lower tax rate — 20% for top earners.as a paltry $16 billion. A quarter-century later, the lethargic, sloth-like investor’s net worth exceeds $100 billion.
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With investing, if you avoid significant losses, the gains will take care of themselves. An investment that gains 100% in the first year and loses 50% in the second year leaves you back where you started. An investment that gains 7% in the first year and 7% in the second year leaves you ahead by 15%.
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Many investors are looking for home run stocks — the kinds of assets that will quadruple in value in a short period of time. But just as DePodesta determined, the problem with swinging for the fences is that you strike out a lot. In both baseball and investing, home runs are very exciting, but they’re also very rare and can be very costly.
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People are naturally drawn to stocks that tell an exciting story. Take Tesla. Helmed by CEO Elon Musk, cofounder of PayPal and SpaceX, Tesla runs on idealistic visions and lots of risk. For now, that makes Tesla a “Question Mark,” one of four categories in the Growth Share Matrix (GSM).
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One of my client's families asked me how to get their 20-year-old daughter, Susan, started on a lifetime of investing. They asked specifically about savings bonds because conventional wisdom says that savings bonds are a “safe” investment.
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Depending on the specifics of your employer’s 401(k) plan (which you can access anytime by referencing the Summary Plan Description, or SPD), Mega Backdoor Roths via NRATs offer a ton of upside.
Read MoreMega Backdoor Roth strategies have been in the news (not to mention Congress) a lot lately. In Part One, I review what they are, how they work, and how they differ from other retirement account strategies.
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Retirement doesn’t look like it used to — and for good reason. For prior generations, age 65 constituted a threshold between the working world and the leisure world. Once you crossed it, you took your gold watch, your pension, and your savings, and kicked back in some tropical locale.
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