Ca-Can’t you understand what’s happening here? Don’t you see what’s happening? Potter isn’t selling. Potter’s buying. And why? Because we’re panicky and he’s not. That’s why. He’s picking up some bargains. —- George Bailey, circa 1930 In 2022 some investors are feeling the same way customers of the Bailey Building and Loan felt in 1930, fearing that their assets will… Read more →
365.256. According to Wikipedia 365.256 is the number of Earth rotations it takes for our planet to fly around the nearest star and return more or less to the original spot. Since we humans have learned this, we’ve been keeping track of our trips. We are now in the earliest part of the one we call 2022. It’s convenient and… Read more →
Clients of Financial Planning Associates, Inc., your 3rd quarter investment management reports are posted to your secure portal. Important milestones: Attached is a listing of certain important milestones for your reference. Coming soon: News and comments about human longevity, infinite/quantum computing, future transportation, equity indexed CDs and more! Read more →
What is your risk tolerance? During the financial planning process we ask questions about – well, everything that might possibly be useful in understanding our clients as they consider their priorities, concerns, strengths, limitations, etc., etc. Specifically with regard to developing and maintaining a proper investment policy it is useful to assess our client’s risk tolerance. A relatively new idea… Read more →
The good news: The recently reported problem with Morningstar client web portal uploads has been fixed. The bad news: Documents uploaded between June 16 and July 2 are not recoverable. If you uploaded documents to your web portal during the period in question, please re-upload those documents. We feel bad about this inconvenience. Therefore, the next time a Mister Softy… Read more →
