Is Gold the Golden Ticket to Beating Inflation?

Is Gold the Golden Ticket to Beating Inflation?

If your goal in retirement is to have an increasing income in order to offset ever increasing prices, gold is one of the worst possible investments you could make. In fact, gold is the second worst major investment class an investor could buy if the goal is to beat...
42 Reasons to Sell All of Your Investments

42 Reasons to Sell All of Your Investments

The stock market hit a new 52 week low a whopping 13 times last year. That’s more than what we saw over the entire last decade and nearly twice as many times as what occurred during the booming 90s. Banks are starting to fail, inflation is still stubbornly high, and...
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Those on Wall Street

Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Those on Wall Street

Gas prices, grocery store bills, and interest rates have all been rising at a fairly high rate recently. It seems to be what everyone is talking about. The question is, where are they headed next? To be blunt and to the point, no one knows and listening to those that...
If the Average Investor is Losing, Who is Winning?

If the Average Investor is Losing, Who is Winning?

When it comes to investing, for every loser there is an equal and opposite winner. If someone sells something to someone else and it goes up in value the person that sold lost while the person that bought won (and vice versa). According to Dalbar’s most recent study...
Given What’s Happening in the World, is it Time to Sell?

Given What’s Happening in the World, is it Time to Sell?

There’s been a lot of negative news headlines recently and I’m hearing the phrase “with what’s going on right now, should I just cash everything out until things calm down?” when having new meetings with prospects. If you’ve been thinking or wondering the same thing,...