Author Archives: Michael McGinley

A Reasonable Time to Rebalance?

The stock market has had a glorious run over the last six months with the broad based S&P 500 index up over 20%. Now may be a good time to review your portfolio’s allocation and make sure your weighting to stocks isn’t too heavy relative to other asset classes.

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Process and Preparation over Prediction. Discipline over Conviction.

Too many investors try to predict the future instead of preparing for the future. Preparation and process are far more important than prediction.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year! I wish you the best of success in 2012. Let’s review 2011 and then see if there is anything of interest in the investment universe.

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What is your investment management discipline?

Markets certainly have been wildly volatile this year. Dow up 300 one day, down 300 the next. I read recently that the Dow has moved over 14,000 points in the last few months and has essentially gone nowhere, which is really something (and quite exhausting!).

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Protect Yourself

Clearly, protecting our identities is crucial in this day and age. Here are some tips that may helpful.

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The Debt Ceiling Fiasco

Thoughts on the debt ceiling.

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Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

Comedian Louis CK being interviewed by Conan O’Brien helped me put some things into perspective recently.

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Odds and Ends

Here are some random items I’ve been asked about by multiple clients. I thought I’d share some thoughts with you.

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What’s Priced To Do Well?

Previously I wrote that the S&P 500 is likely to have pretty mediocre returns for the next several years. Fortunately, there are some reasonable alternatives. Below are a couple of ideas.

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What Will Future US Stock Returns Look Like?

Recently Ben Inker of global investment firm GMO gave a speech at Babson College asserting that the US stock market will earn only 2.5% annually over the next several years.

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