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Bonds are Hot…? Part 1: Yields, History & Inversion

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk Capital efficiently and frequently flows between bonds and stocks. It pays to keep an eye on yields offered by these markets. – Naved Abdali For many of the past 15 years, bonds provided returns both relatively low and relatively safe.A low inflation and low interest rate environment made stocks...
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The 2022 Bear Market: No Place to Hide

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk “A 10% decline in the market is fairly common—it happens about once a year. Investors who realize this are less likely to sell in a panic, and more likely to remain invested, benefiting from the wealth building power of stocks.”– Christopher Davis For most investors, 2022 might seem like...
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Drilling Into Global Markets

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk “We aren’t addicted to oil, but our cars are.”– James Woolsey Roughly 99% of vehicles in the U.S. run on gasoline or diesel fuel. The price of oil used to produce gasoline and other energy products continues to have a significant effect on the U.S. economy, its corporations and...
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Oceans Do No Financial Moats Make

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk “In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium.In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went fromsize medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the worldwent from being small to tiny.”–...
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Wambolt & Associates: A Family Office for Many Families

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk A traditional “family” office provides comprehensive investment, tax, estate and other services to achieve long-term financial goals, including passing on wealth to future generations. Providing all these services is expensive, and to justify an office focused on a single family may require wealth possessed by very few. However, a...
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A Recession By Any Other Name?

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk “There is no Ground Hog Day, when all the economists come out from the tunnel and declare the recession is over. They have a retroactive, seasonally-adjusted Ground Hog Day.”– Peter Lynch The recent debate about whether the economy is or is not already in a recession can be a...
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Receding Tides and Drowning Fools: The Demise of Day Traders

By Cindy Alvarez & Bob Newkirk “The trend is your friend … until the end when it bends.”– Ed Seykota Day trading by individual investors grew substantially during the pandemic. People stayed at home, spent more time online, and, in some cases, had additional funds to spend. These effects encouraged day trading, as did the...
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Know Thyself in Down Markets: Accepting Losses for Future Gains

This article was written before stock indices moved into a bear market rather than a correction.However, the same principles presented continue to apply. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”– Robert Arnott The market declines this year are painful. However, these types of declines are surprisinglyfrequent. Understanding how to respond to market corrections is...
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4 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Estate Plan

“If You Fail to Plan, You are Planning to Fail” – Benjamin Franklin No one ever plans to fail; it is never intentional. We do not launch initiatives with failure inmind. Instead, we seek success. When we start a business, make an investment, or take on anew venture – retirement, parenthood, or a cross-country move...
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