Asset allocation is a common strategy that you can use to construct an investment portfolio. Asset allocation isn’t about picking individual securities. Instead, you focus on broad categories of investments, mixing them together in the right proportion to match your… Read More
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Rolling Stock Market Returns: The Antidote for the Daily Stock Market Watcher
Rolling returns are a great way to measure investment performance (in this example the S&P 500 index). These rolling returns don’t correspond to calendar periods. We begin to understand investing more clearly as we compare the rolling stock market return periods… Read More
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Volatility in the Markets
The military conflict in Ukraine over the past month is very disconcerting. The situation remains intense with no end in sight. We hope for a swift, peaceful, and just resolution of the war between Russia and Ukraine. At BWFA, we… Read More
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What About 1968?
In the most recent June 2020 BWFA Advisor magazine, I wrote, “What a Difference 100 Years Makes…or Does It?”. In the article, I drew comparison to today’s pandemic with the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. What we saw is, despite… Read More
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The Power of Perseverance
THE CASE FOR STAYING INVESTED Although short-term volatility swings can be difficult to stomach, it’s important for long-term investors to persevere. While it may be tempting to pull out of the stock market, investors may miss out on a potential… Read More
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What a Difference 100 Years Makes… Or Not?
What can the 1918 influenza pandemic, the so-called “Spanish Flu”, teach us about how the markets have responded to current health concerns—and also how to act accordingly? There has been a “protracted discounting” of the market and the underlying value… Read More