As we have stated many times, it is crucial to understand how your financial advisor/planner is paid. The three basic compensation methods are commission
When asked how people can improve their investment experience, our first response is to focus on the things they can control and not on the things over which
In behavioral finance, the endowment effect refers to the observed tendency of people to assign a higher value to an asset merely because they own it. On a
The second quarter saw healthy gains for most segments of the U.S. equity market and losses for the foreign equity markets. Bonds suffered a small overall
To all investors who have ever asked us what they can do to meet their financial planning goals, at Clarity Capital Advisors, our answer has invariably
If we could summarize the first quarter of 2018 in a single word, it would, of course, be volatility. This was all too obvious from the repeated headlines
This past Tuesday (3/13/2018), the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Kansas district court decision in favor of the Department of Labor, rejecting the
In Warren Buffett’s 2017 letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, he lays out the details of his overwhelming victory in his 10-year bet on a Vanguard
The Dreaded 3% is getting dangerously close! Of course, we are referring to the yield on the 10-year Treasury note which closed Friday (2/23/2018) at 2.87%
While it was only two weeks ago that we heard the incessant chatter about “the best January in the last three decades”, it may as well have been a
Today’s (1/17/18) Wall Street Journal featured an opinion piece by Martin Feldstein (Harvard professor and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under
Today (12/29/2017) marked the last trading day of 2017, and stocks across the board continued to impress. US stocks turned in their ninth consecutive year