By Jonathan Scheid, CFA, AIF

What a difference a few months can make! A few months at the end of 2018 turned U.S. stock returns negative and made international stocks to decline further for the year. Now, just a few months a... Read more

Investing

By Larry Swedroe

As the chief research officer for Buckingham Strategic Wealth, Loring Ward, and the BAM Alliance, I receive many questions from advisors and investors regarding concerns about factor-based invest... Read more

Investing

By Larry Swedroe

Hedge funds entered 2019 coming off their ninth-straight year of trailing U.S. stocks (as measured by the S&P 500 Index) by significant margins. And for the 10-year period ending 2017 — one t... Read more

Investing

By Larry Swedroe

French economist Louis Bachelier long ago remarked: “Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would not quote this pric... Read more

Investing / Volatility

By Larry Swedroe

A good friend, Sherman Doll, related the following story. Sherman has been a two-line sport kite flier for years. While not a pro, he has learned a few tricks from observing the flying behavior o... Read more

Investing

By Loring Ward Team

Over the last nine decades, the U.S. experienced 9 bear markets and 15 recessions or depressions, World War II and Vietnam, and any number of crises big and small. Yet $1 invested in 1927 could h... Read more

Investing

By Jonathan Scheid, CFA, AIF

In 2017, global markets moved up most of the year, but that surely wasn’t the case in 2018. In fact, we haven’t seen that type of volatility in U.S. markets for some time. In this article, we’ll... Read more

Investing / Volatility

By J. William G. Chettle

This article is featured in the winter edition of our 360 Insights Quarterly Client Newsletter. In addition to the usual resolutions, the new year is a great time to talk to your financial adviso... Read more

Financial Planning

By J. William G. Chettle

Instead of sitting back with a glass of egg nog and overdosing on Rankin/Bass holiday specials, some investors spend year-end trying to decorate their portfolios with dubious investment ideas.  H... Read more

Investing