Hello again everyone. I’m sure all of you are being extra productive today (why is it not Super Bowl Monday?) Well don’t worry, for those of you watching closely SEM isn’t slacking given the passing of the first day of the month with no changes
Happy January 29th! Hopefully those of you in the North are staying cozy. I pass along my 71 degrees (hope that helps). Congratulations to *sigh* Patriots and Rams fans (not sure if the latter is a thing) and to those non-football fans who live in a
he term "2FA" - short for "two-factor authentication" - has experienced something that I initially called "the Kleenex effect". After a bit of searching, I found out that "the Kleenex effect" is a real thing and even has a name: "genericide". Wikipedia defines it like this (lightly edited for clarity)
As we enter either the final stages of the bull market or go through the early stages of the bear market (nobody will know until they have the benefit of hindsight WHEN the bear market began) we are witnessing in client and advisor meetings something that always occurs — confusion/angst
Despite the post-Christmas rally in the stock market, like death and taxes there is something investors cannot avoid — bear markets. The way our brains are programmed, the longer we go without experiencing something, the less likely we are to believe it can happen (this is called Availability bias or
