When you hear a non-business radio station discussing the rise in interest rates it is clearly something people are starting to notice. Most people, including too many financial reporters want to group all interest rates into a single category. They do not understand the inner-workings of how interest rates are
What’s the Score?
With football season in full force and investors once again wondering why they aren’t getting double digit returns like the S&P 500 index, I thought I would bring out my favorite investing analogy (paraphrased from Mike Mason of Mason & Associates in
I realize in a 9-year old bull market talking about risk management will not generate a lot of clicks to our site. For whatever reason, the past few weeks have seen a large number of portfolio reviews from prospective clients that included “Target Date” funds. These funds have
Last weekend was the “official” 10 year anniversary of the Great Financial Crisis. (This was when Lehman Brothers failed. Long-time SEM readers know the crisis actually began in 2007 with the failure of a few smaller mortgage brokers.) There has been a plethora of specials surrounding this anniversary.
Jeff was a guest on “Ask the Expert” with Mason & Associates in Norfolk, VA this week. During the show they discussed how the recent Hurricane in North Carolina can be an analogy of how we tend to deal with our investments and savings. In addition, several callers
