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 financial goals, the amount of time you have to invest, and your tolerance for risk. […]
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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 of differing lengths of time. To calculate rolling returns you take the return for each […]
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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 do believe it is important to maintain a broader perspective and we continue to focus […]
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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 the unimaginable human suffering and death, the stock market found its bottom and subsequently moved […]
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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 market rebound and opportunity for gains while they are on the sidelines. In the chart […]