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Weekly Notes from TSA Wealth Management
Covering investments and wealth management concepts for retirement planning.
4th Quarter Updates
Today’s note is just a recap of our investment process along with a brief explainer on some small shifts we made in response to changing market conditions.
Reasons For Optimism
With everything going on in the world, it is often difficult to believe that things continue to get better. But they do and here are a few articles I present as evidence.
The Reality of Good Investments
As much as I promote the benefits of stock investing for the long run, it is important to remember that most individual stocks are terrible long-term investments.
Gold Is Not the Answer
If you are looking for a long-term inflation hedge, we believe you are better off in equities rather than gold.
Home Ownership Is Not the Investment You Think It Is
If owning a home brings happiness and is financially planned for, spend the money. Money is a tool for enjoyment. However, if you seek investment returns, history favors diversified stocks over a single-family home.
Tuning Out the Noise is Hard
The financial media want you to believe that they are looking out for your best interests. They are not. In fact, financial media exist for the sole purpose of selling advertising.
Presentation Recap: Long-Term Investing
For this week’s note, we wanted to provide a recap of our recent presentation.
Stock Market Opportunities Never Last
Once a strategy promises to produce easy money, the market takes notice, and the previous patterns reverse.
This Time Isn’t Different
There continue to be no facts about the future, but if history is any indicator, which I believe it is, this too shall pass.
The Crowd is Often Wrong
Last week I touched on the immutable truth that humans are bad at timing the stock market. This week I’ll point out that they are similarly terrible when it comes to timing the bond market.
Waiting For a Better Time to Invest
“Be aware that the market does not turn when it sees the light at the end of the tunnel. It turns when all looks black, but just a shade less black than the day before (emphasis added).”