The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Not everybody can sit through a bear market. Sure, guys like Buffett and Munger never sell, but for the 99% of us who have emotions, we need to do something to de-risk when it looks like the world is falling apart. But what so many investors get wrong is that they don’t have a process for selling and then getting back in. The pain threshold is different for everyone, but the trigger to sell is always the same, it's overwhelming fear.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Uniting Around a Legacy: Generational Wealth Transfer achen Mon, 02/13/2017 - 14:02 Young investors face a critical set of decision points in their early years of independence. We work regularly with clients in their 20s and 30s, helping them make good decisions about starting new business ventures, funding their educations, managing inherited wealth and tackling other challenges unique to the time in their lives when they are first charting their long-term path.

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It's generally accepted that the current bull market began in March of 2009, which means that stocks have been running for 2002 trading days. I'm not on board with this line of thinking. Forget the first point, that the bull started at the lows in 2009, as opposed to 2013 when the 2007 highs were taken out. Rather, I'm talking about the idea that this bull has been running for eight straight years.

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

"Strange things happened near the boundaries"- James Gleick Stocks are not cheap. The CAPE ratio is 28.46, above the long-term average of 16.73 and more expensive than 96% of all readings. But exactly how expensive are they, and what might this mean for future returns? The chart below from Star Capital shows that the more expensive stocks are, the deeper the average drawdown.

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The Irrelevant Investor

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

“Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them.”- Ed Thorp This past week I was on a panel with Abby Joseph Cohen and Liz Ann Sonders. How the hell did that happen? I want to share with you some pieces of my story and how chance was on my side. My parents got divorced when I was seven years old. My mother never graduated from college and had no marketable skills to rely on in the workplace.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Uniting Around a Legacy: Generational Wealth Transfer. achen. Mon, 02/13/2017 - 14:02. Young investors face a critical set of decision points in their early years of independence. We work regularly with clients in their 20s and 30s, helping them make good decisions about starting new business ventures, funding their educations, managing inherited wealth and tackling other challenges unique to the time in their lives when they are first charting their long-term path.

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