by Colin Symons, CFA | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel, first published in 1994, is broadly considered one of the best investment books of all time. As the title implies, the idea is that in the long term, stocks win for compounding wealth. That has certainly broadly been the case,...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’ve certainly had a rip-roaring start to the year. The first question is, is that deserved? What happened to create this great start? My belief is that two basic things happened to create the big January. First, markets got deeply oversold in December, and...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Around Christmas, when the market was down about 19% from its September 2018 peak, I wrote a blog (Don’t Panic! – December 28) urging people not to participate in the market panic that was going on at the time. Was that good advice? It would be hard for it not...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Dec 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Panic seems to be the keyword of the day for investors. As an example, CNN’s Fear and Greed index just hit 5, its all-time Fear extreme. The worst time to panic is after other people have already panicked. People who panic tend to do dumb things. “I want out....
by Colin Symons, CFA | Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
So you think you’re having good times With the boy that you just met Kicking sand from beach to beach Your clothes are soaking wet But if you look around and see A shadow on the run (on the run) Don’t be too upset because it’s just a paper sun ...
