When the headlines of newspapers or the lead stories on the newscast start with “Market Plunges”, “Stocks Dive” or “ Disaster on Wall Street”, they are usually followed by a reason why the stock market did what it did. I like to call that reason, …

There’s a reason that investors tend to only hear about “looming” market doom or “imminent” market growth. While many news outlets have incentive to draw viewer attention with wildly bullish or bearish predictions, these sensationalized views may be a distraction to a sound investment approach. …

Imagine investing in an asset that has increased in value by 14.8% per year over the last three years. This asset also had a positive return when U.S. stocks fell last September. Can you guess what asset class this was? The answer: International stocks in …

When you lay out the returns of a variety of asset classes over time it’s hard to find any meaningful patterns. The chart below shows the returns on 10 different asset classes over time and it’s quickly evident that what was the star of last year rarely …

What would you do if your investments lost 10% in a single day? A) Add more money to my account. B) Hold steady with what I’ve got. C) Yank my money; I wouldn’t be able to stand any more losses. If investors buy the right …