According to Bespoke Institutional, stocks broke a 58 day streak of trading without a market move of over plus or minus 1% on August 10th....

For the last week or so the conflict of words between North Korea and the United States seems to have changed from a rapid boil to a slow...

Even after the recent political news, stocks appear to be very close to all-time highs and trading in an established long term channel....

Was it Really a 'Trump' Rally?' The 1st quarter of 2017 started out optimistically on the part of investors as the surprise “Trump ...

With the strong bull run in stock prices since November, we have been reading more from the perma-bear community about how overvalued the...

​Chart 1 Anybody who has been in the investment business long enough knows the futility of forecasting financial events – especially when...

A well constructed bond portfolio can stand-alone as a total portfolio or as part of a broader asset allocation strategy. There are many...

In today’s low return environment, investors are scrambling to find higher yielding investments in order to fund future or a current...

It seems that every election year the pundits bloviate on why this cycle is different than any other election year in history. It...

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Mark Twain I recently got...

One of the most common questions I get from people entering the retirement phase of life is, ‘when should I take my social security...

Whether your game is growth or value, momentum, low volatility or indexing, strategies with strong academic underpinnings generally work...

Some years back I used to enjoy reading a research report that was published periodically by Credit Suisse called “Better than Bonds”. ...

Current Outlook If 2015 was flat and boring for investors, then 2016 has ushered in an unwelcome change to volatility and losses. We...

It’s been well publicized that the month of January 2016 was not the worst January in history for US equities - it was the second worst. ...

At Emerald Asset Management we believe that most investors would avoid many investing pitfalls if they would follow three primary rules. ...

Nobody can predict the future with absolute certainty – nobody. However, in this business, we deal in probabilities, then we monitor and...

I can’t remember when I first heard the phrase that is the title of this article. But I’m fairly certain it’s been around for a while...

I started my career on The Street of Dreams in October of 1991 as a stock broker with one of those many great regional brokerage firms...

​ According to Wikipedia, the definition of a financial plan is “a comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s current and future state...