Maintaining Your Portfolio Is a Rebalancing Act

Markets bounce around, which means your portfolio will eventually look different than it did when you started. You’ll be taking the wrong amount of risk. We want to bring your portfolio back to where it should be through a process we call “rebalancing.”
What Happens After the Market Drops?

Staying disciplined and avoiding market timing are two of the best investing tips we could give whether the market is up or down, but what happens after the market drops?
Coverage Options for Long-Term Care Insurance Policies, Pt. 2

It is important to consider which expenses qualify for benefits.
Disciplined Investors Don’t Rely on Market Predictions

Authors Note: This article was originally published towards the end of January 2016. To put it mildly, the year got off to a rocky start, and a lot of people were incredibly nervous about what this meant for the markets. While this article specifically addressed the situation at the beginning of 2016, but with a […]
Coverage Options for Long-Term Care Insurance Policies, Pt. 1

Both traditional and newer hybrid insurance policies carry a number of parameters and options to consider.
A Vanishing Value Premium?

Value stocks underperformed growth stocks by a material margin in the US last year. However, the magnitude and duration of the recent negative value premium are not unprecedented.
Can You Time the Market?

Over the long term, market returns need to be captured efficiently and consistently. Trying to guess when they occur is an impossibility that leads to the underperformance stated above. How difficult is it to time the market? Let’s look.
Hybrid Long-Term Care Insurance Policies

Attempts to combat concerns about traditional long-term care insurance have resulted in combination or hybrid products using an asset-based approach to fund long-term care.
Potential Concerns and Risks for Traditional Long-Term Care Insurance

The range of expenses covered by long-term care insurance varies, and it is important to understand what exactly is covered by a contract under consideration.
Prophets & Losses: Predicting the Market is a Losing Proposition

Right now there is a lot of noise in the system. The din of the pundits quickly becomes deafening as they try to tell you what the markets are going to do this year. The financial media does this every year, and even more so with this year’s volatile start. This type of prognostication sells, […]