With Volatility, Emotions Can Get in the Way

by Steve Cassaday, CFP®, CFS When we distill out all of the noise in the world of investment advice there remains an essential immutable truth: The presence of volatility in individual investments and portfolios is the reason most people don’t get the investment outcome they would like. Here’s why: Volatility in the investment lexicon means variance…

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Beware, Bonds May Be The Next Bubble

by Steve Cassaday, CFP®, CFS Although considered to be “safe,” or at least safer than stocks and hard assets, bonds have risks that, if fully understood, would strike fear in the hearts of most lay investors. With the unprecedented volatility in the stock markets and blood-curdling daily headlines about the impending collapse of the universe, investors…

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