Let’s face it, bear markets are no fun. When all is well in the stock market, we often tell clients that we don’t have a crystal ball, but one thing that we can guarantee is that stock markets will crash at some point. In fact, depending on how old you are, or how many years…
When I was a kid, I always wanted to have a perfect plate of food. To me, this meant an even amount of rice, meat and vegetables. So, if I ate a forkful of chicken, I would turn my plate to eat a similar quantity of rice, then vegetables. All the components would remain in…
About a month ago, in the early news stages of the Coronavirus, I called my wife asking her if she was going shopping. She happened to be at Costco (of all places!) and asked what I wanted. I asked her to get bottled water, toilet paper, and canned goods. The bottled water in stock was…
Staying the Course – Global Equity Markets, Hurricanes and Your Financial Future In 2011, my family and I departed on a three-year sailing adventure beginning in the Caribbean, taking us through the Panama Canal, and across the South Pacific. In the years since, I have shared stories with family, friends, and clients about the once…
Modern Portfolio Theory, Two Decades of Real Life Investing, and the 2020 Bear Market Summary: Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) was emerging as the leading scientific investment approach in the 1980s. A small number of firms started implementing the academic strategies of MPT over the course of the 1990s, of which Navigoe was one. Navigoe’s approach…
Following is a letter that was sent to all Navigoe clients on the evening of Thursday, March 12, 2020. Good evening, I hope this email finds you and your family healthy and doing well. For all of us, staying healthy through this current coronavirus outbreak is very important. I want to provide you with an…
Just before the new year, the SECURE Act, a bill intended to improve the retirement outlook for millions of Americans was signed into law. We highlighted the main provisions of the new law in an earlier blog post. A new law that changes some of the rules governing how you save for retirement is bound…
It appears that the real risk to stock markets is an overreaction, to the overreaction, of currently understood effects of the coronavirus Covid-19. The best defense to such a reaction is a globally diversified portfolio with a proven strategy to weather market storms. Viruses are a common part of human life. We live with them…
Navigoe’s First Quarter 2020 Newsletter has been published! Following is a summary of one of the articles. At the bottom you can click to view the entire newsletter. Nobody wants to think about dying, much less planning for all the details that will follow. But this is important. Your heirs and the executor of your…
A year ago, as we entered 2019, we were coming off of the heels of the worst year for stocks since 2008, which was the depths of the Great Recession crash. The S&P 500 was negative in 2018 for the first time since 2008, and all major stock market indices were negative, with many of…
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