Is now a good time to be in the market? The answer is simple (for long term goals): “It is always a good time to be in the market,” says Evelyn Zohlen, a Certified Financial Planner™ professional. “Whether or not you are in the market has nothing to do with what is happening today. It has everything to do with your […]
Month: August 2016
Controlling What You Can Control
A few months ago, I posted a blog titled, The Only Goal That Matters Is Yours. It included content from Carl Richard’s excellent blog, The Behavior Gap, and spoke about your financial plan being a road map to your personal and financial goals. This talk from Dave Butler, Head of Global Financial Advisor Services at Dimensional Fund Advisors, reinforces this point. […]
Professor Eugene Fama on the Volatility of Premiums
“You don’t get premiums for nothing,” says Professor Eugene Fama, “They are there because you are bearing risk. And that’s the nature of the risk, you could have long periods of time when things just don’t work out. Short, recent periods of data really don’t tell you anything about whether anything has changed.”
