Financial planning is the act of defining your values, needs, and goals and designing a process to help you achieve them. A financial plan is essentially a roadmap for your money and your life. The goal of financial planning is to reduce your stress about money by optimizing for the things you can control and … Continue reading What Is Financial Planning?
As the summer slips away, most investors are eager to see some calm in the investment world. Between the trade war, Brexit, rate cuts from the Federal Reserve, negative interest rates, and worries of a recession, the news is getting monotonous. The only thing more predictable than the headlines is that the president of the … Continue reading September Update, 2019: History Repeats
We sold our Facebook, Inc. stock late last year because we could not quantify the growing political risks across the world from so many different countries. To us, the risks outweighed the huge profits Facebook was earning. We worried that some country could “turn off” Facebook because it was being used as a tool to … Continue reading Is Facebook Flying Too Close To The Sun?
We agree with Warren Buffett, banks are great investments. So why are people so pessimistic? Warren Buffett, who is probably the most successful long-term investor, says banks are great because they are “very good investments at sensible prices… and they are cheaper than other businesses that are also good businesses, by some margin.” He’s put … Continue reading Bank Stocks: Don’t Lose Sight Of Where The Value Lies
Markets have exhibited a great deal of volatility over the last two months. It has not been uncommon for markets to fall by 400 points one day, and to rebound by the same amount the next. There are various explanations for these violent swings, ranging from trade war concerns to recession worries that are mostly … Continue reading August Update, 2019: Summer Market Commentary
The trade war between the U.S. and China is on everyone’s radar but how important is it, really? Let’s be clear, in trade both parties should enjoy benefits and in war, there are no winners. So, in this war who is the biggest loser? Let’s look at the facts: The U.S. economy is roughly a … Continue reading Who’s The Biggest Loser In The U.S. And China Trade War?
Walt Disney’s remake of The Lion King grossed $78.5 USD million on opening day, the biggest single-day gross for anything other than a Star Wars or Marvel movie. Pretty significant, and even more so on the heels of some disappointing second quarter results from Netflix. The two companies are often pitted against each other, especially now that Disney … Continue reading Disney vs. Netflix: Why We Own Disney
Every civilization had its own mythology, with mythical creatures that often sowed chaos. One of the more famous ones is the Hydra from Greek and Roman mythology. The Hydra had multiple heads (brains or ideas) and if you chopped off a head, two more would grow in its place. The Hydra was a tough beast, … Continue reading June Update, 2019: Hydra or Godzilla?
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“There must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief.” -Bob Dylan By the time this note reaches you, China and the U.S. will have gone to the next level of self-destructive behaviour causing their citizens to pay more for each other’s respective goods and services. I’m sure if you read the … Continue reading May Update, 2019: Bull In A China Shop
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