Real estate has become a popular investment vehicle over the last 50 years. It can be a great way to diversify your portfolio, keep pace with inflation, and grow your wealth. Real estate investing often involves purchasing, managing, renting, owning, or selling for a profit.
The past year has been a vivid reminder that the stock market often moves swiftly and dramatically in response to unexpected events.
Whether you’ve been investing for decades or are just getting started, at some point on your investment journey you’ll likely ask yourself some of the questions below.
Why Companies Choose Stock Options... and How Employees Can Use Them.
2020 was a year that investors will not soon forget and it’s clear,few of us were sad to say goodbye.
If you want to see, perhaps even enjoy, an exercise in futility, run a search in Google on this phrase: 2019 predictions about the stock market in 2020 As you’ll find, the search returns dozens of articles containing hundreds of predictions from market pundits about how they expected 2020 to unfold for the economy and […]
It is no secret 2020 took the world by surprise and will be the year we all remember. It also seems investors have learned there are many things we certainly cannot control. However, when it comes to financial planning, and in particular tax and retirement planning, there are significant opportunities we all should consider now […]
What History Tells Us About US Presidential Elections and the Market It’s natural for investors to look for a connection between who wins the White House and which way stocks will go. But as nearly a century of returns shows, stocks have trended upward across administrations from both parties. Stocks have rewarded disciplined investors for […]
Vanguard founder John Bogle once famously advised investors on how to handle stock downturns: “Don’t just do something,” he said. “Stand there!” It is a wry and wise way of turning the conventional wisdom about what to do in bear markets on its head. When panic grips the stock market – as it did in […]
