Tag: Investing

A Lesson About Planting Trees.

The best time to plant trees. Everyone agrees that trees are good. Trees provide oxygen which we require to live. They provide beauty. They live and grow and become furniture, walls, paper, etc. So, we should plant new trees. But when? When is the best time to plant a tree? It has been said that the best time to plant… Read more →

Our investors have done well!

Our investors continue to gain on inflation! Investment advisor regulations discourage citing specific investment results here, but I can say that our clients’ investment portfolios have, in general, grown faster than inflation over the past 5 years! Specific information is available to our IM clients. Note: The calculation used to determine our clients’ returns is called the internal rate of… Read more →

4th Quarter Investment Results and More.

Our investment management clients will now find preliminary 4th quarter reports posted in their secure folders. The cost of living decreased by approximately 0.15%. Final inflation numbers will become available around the 20th of January. Category returns for the quarter, and the year are shown below. Investment Category Representative ETF 2015,Q4 2015 iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology (IBB) 10.95 5.21 Vanguard Healthcare (VHT) 7.99… Read more →