“The markets take the stairs up and the elevator down.” While this saying may be over-used, it helps to convey the speed at which markets can seem to turn against you. After volatility held near record lows over the past year, we saw two days last week where the DOW was down over 1,000 points. It’s a… Read More

“Market Crash, DOW drops below 24,000.” Strange headline. How differently would we feel if we only knew the market price once a year. Allow me to round to the nearest thousand points and the nearest weekly number on the Dow in roughly this week of February going back to 2008. We just officially start our… Read More

For those of you not watching the headlines today, US and global markets have dropped fast and significantly in a way that reminds us of 2008 and 2009 – but without any of the same general concerns. As market moves of this magnitude can raise investor concerns (and emotions), we wanted to share a few… Read More

Late last year I shared a few quotes from my father’s retirement letter to our team and clients in 2003. Given the significant improvement in world markets over the last four months, I’d suggest it could be worth a quick review. Here are a few more of the 152 bullet points in that letter that hopefully make for… Read More

On Friday, President Trump executed a tax reform bill that will have broad implications for individual and business tax planning. Here are a few of the best articles and summaries we’ve read so far. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Summary Provided by Lopata, Flegel & Company A comprehensive overview of the new law with additional… Read More