Tune in to any news channel on TV or pick up any newspaper and the one U.S. stock market benchmark that you will inevitably find reported is the Dow. Yet the Dow – more formally called the Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) – is not especially representative of the broad stock market. Or for that matter…
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Long-term care planning is an important part of overall retirement planning. Seniors face the uncertainty of a possible need for help with some aspect of their daily living activities due to accident or physical or mental health decline. And the latter problem is disturbingly common. According to the University of Michigan one in ten adults…
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The stock market has been very generous to investors since the recession of 2008. Over the past 15 years the S&P 500 large cap index rose 13.9% on average each year (source: Morningstar). The same, however, cannot be said for smaller company stocks. The Russell 2000, a popular small cap stock index, grew only 10.4%…
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A long time ago before the inception of email and the Internet, some investment advisors made a living selling investment books and/or newsletters. There are still plenty of investment authors and books around today, but the newsletters have given way to investment emails, web sites, podcasts, and TV pundits hawking everything from stocks and cryptocurrencies…
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Tesla shareholders recently voted to support a pay package worth $46 billion that the company board of directors had offered to chief executive officer Elon Musk last year. While that particular deal is orders of magnitude beyond any other pay package on the planet, the compensation that many big companies provide to their CEOs –…
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I have heard from several clients about how worried they are regarding the upcoming presidential election. I won’t delve into the politics; you can draw your own conclusions as to the consequences of one or the other candidate’s getting into or remaining in power. But as far as the stock market is concerned, I don’t…
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