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Quarterly Market Review – First Quarter 2018

By Curt Stowers | April 11, 2018 |

While we believe that investors should always focus on the long term, we recognize that there is always a great deal of interest in happenings in the marketplace. With that in mind, we publish a brief market update each quarter. Here you will find updates for the first quarter of 2018.

Monday Morning Motivation – Preparation

By Curt Stowers | April 9, 2018 |

What sort of preparation in you doing in your life in regards to faith, family, friend, fitness, and finances?

Why Paying Attention to Interest Rates is Pointless for Investors

By Curt Stowers | April 6, 2018 |

I am 99.9% certain that there are other financial advisors who will see this title and think I am absolutely nuts. They will opine, “Of course interest rates are important!”. Yeah, they are wrong. At least when it comes to using interest rates as a predictor on investment returns.

Monday Morning Motivation – Breaks

By Curt Stowers | April 2, 2018 |

Are you making your own breaks and rejecting the concept of bad breaks?

How to Evaluate Investment Models (& Why Perfection is Not Realistic)

By Curt Stowers | March 30, 2018 |

Monday Morning Motivation – Excuses

By Curt Stowers | March 26, 2018 |

Are you ready to stop making excuses?

No More Chasing Returns–Why I am a Global Investor

By Curt Stowers | March 23, 2018 |

If you look at the numbers, US equities have done incredibly well over the past decade. Comparatively, international developed equities have NOT done nearly as well. As a result, you will see many in the financial services space over-weighting (compared to their historical holdings) the US equities.

Monday Morning Motivation – Facing

By Curt Stowers | March 19, 2018 |

Are you facing the reality in your life?

One Commonsense Insight That Can Improve Your Investment Returns

By Curt Stowers | March 16, 2018 |

Approach investing by using theories that are backed up by the data AND have a good common-sense/intuitive explanation. One theory that has both is this: Invest in companies that have a track record of producing profitable results.