Stocks Are at All-Time Highs. Should You Keep Buying?
The fear of heights has an official name, acrophobia. The fear of market highs doesn’t have one yet, but if it did, a decent chunk of the investing public would likely qualify for a diagnosis right about now! The S&P 500 has spent 2026 setting record after record, and it’s been hovering around the 7,500 […]
The Different Kinds of Risk That Can Shape Your Financial Plan
Risk is easy to talk about in the abstract. We take it every day. We drive in traffic, start businesses, buy homes, change jobs, raise kids, and make decisions with incomplete information because that’s what adult life requires. We don’t usually call those decisions “risk tolerance.” We call them Tuesday. Financial risk regarding your retirement […]
Why Portfolio Diversification is So Important
Let’s go back to the spring of 2000. Everyone was chasing dot-com stocks, and the sky seemed the limit. People were convinced they’d retire at 35 thanks to their tech portfolios. So many investors were all-in on a couple of flashy Internet companies. For a while, account balances soared. But then the bubble burst, and […]