Happy 2015! Well, what a year it’s been. The bull market of 2014 really never took a chance to relax with corporations continuing to reign in revenues. The scary thing is pundits are calling for this beast to continue doing so into 2015. For the 4th quarter we saw gains over 4% in all 3 […]
As we enter the home stretch of 2014, we can at least say that it has been a somewhat “boring” market quarter, but sometimes boring is better than the alternative. For the 3rd quarter, the S&P 500 was flat with a .6% increase. The Dow Jones was up 1.3% and the NASDAQ up 1.9%. For
It is amazing to us. We run across client investment portfolio statements and there it is smack in your face-a Morgan Stanley account with all of the holdings in Morgan Stanley mutual funds! The next day, we see it again. An Ameriprise client with a 35% position in one Ameriprise mutual fund!?! Ever seen the
More than $40 trillion will pass between generations by the year 2055 according to the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP) at Boston College. That’s a whole lot of hard-earned cash. For many baby boomers and generation Xers, this gift may actually feel like a burden rather than something to look forward to. Anxiety creeps
As the American soccer team clawed its way through this year’s World Cup in Brazil, the markets have slowly clawed their way to a solid first half performance. The S&P 500 ended the quarter up 4.70%, the tech heavy NASDAQ fared better ending up 5.00% and the 30 company Dow Jones was up 2.20%. The
Let’s face it; investment management isn’t a business that many think of dearly when discussed. It’s evident when you open the newspaper that there are some advisors out there who are making some very poor decisions and being locked away for doing so. But, of course, there are others who are doing it the “right
Includes: Car Seat Karma The Boom and Inherited IRAs Sustainvest Takes on $35 Billion Pharma Company Non-Profit of the Quarter-COTS Spring has sprung (for most of us) as we enter the 2nd quarter of the year. Companies are sifting through profit and loss statements with corporate earnings announcements due soon which should prove interesting in
Inside Economy Companies Committed Education: Risk vs Return Shareholder Activism Non-Profit of the Quarter Economy With 2013 behind us, let’s take a little time to digest and reflect back on the year and the 4th quarter. Stocks sort of barreled through the year, notwithstanding a fairly large crisis in Europe along with the complacency of
As we enter 2014, many of us are now pondering a new year’s resolution. Some of us may improve our diets by eating more of that organic rainbow chard or scrumptious kale while others may consider getting up a little earlier to sweat it out at that 6:00am bootcamp or crossfit class. One resolution that
I will be giving an informal chat on How to be an Activist Shareholder this Thursday the 25th at Lydia’s Sunflower Center at 6:30pm. If you’re interested in learning about socially and environmentally conscious investing and what a “shareholder proposal” is and the history behind them and how to file one yourself then stop on
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