The summer in Minnesota is a special time. When the weather gets warm and the kids and grandkids are out of school, even the most routine investment-management decisions become a bother. The summer of 2013 is fast becoming a high risk investment environment. Interest...
The year-to-date 2013 stock market gains have absolutely nothing to do with the investment management abilities of Minnesota stock market investors. It is just human nature to think that your investment management ability had something to do with your stock market...
I have heard multiple Minnesota individual investors that I have met with tell me about their deep seated feelings of their stock market investments being totally out of their understanding and control. There seems to be a nagging feeling by individual investors of...
Last Saturday, May 18, 2013, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a commencement speech to this year’s graduates of Bard Collage at Simon’s Rock in Barrington, Massachusetts. As part of my regular Saturday morning reading, I happened to come across the...
I can’t even remember how many Minnesota company retirement plan participants I have heard this same story from. I can tell you that it has been several over my 29 years in the financial services industry. When you change jobs, you naturally call the company that...
Hi Mom, I have been thinking about you a lot lately. Even more than I normally do. I wish that you could be here to see my kids grow up. I see so much of you in each of them. I also see the things that you taught me growing up and how I have tried to teach each of...
