In Minnesota, we stick by our local companies. That is the Minnesotan thing to do. Our parents—mostly Minnesotans themselves—taught us that way of thinking. We shop at Target, by 3M Post-it notes, and load up on General Mills and Hormel products at Super Value. And...
The buy-and-hold strategy is by far the most popular investment management strategy for the majority of Minnesota company 401(k) retirement plan participants. I don’t find many individual company retirement plan participants who have the investment experience or...
Hidden beneath all the euphoria and the disappointment of this year’s Presidential Election is a very important investment lesson for all Minnesota stock market investors. The 2012 Presidential Election set records for the amount of money spent by political action...
Minnesota voters have been constantly asked this election year if they were better off than they were 4 years ago. I made the executive decision to add one more year, and ask the same question about stock market investments. To begin to answer this question, go to...
New York City is a long way away from your home in Minnesota. But the city and the people who work there play a huge role in the investment performance and the management of your Minnesota company 401(k) retirement plan. The New York Stock Exchange was closed today...
It must be all the current hype about the Presidential Election on November 6th. You can’t watch TV, read the newspaper, open the mail, or receive a home phone call without another political message trying to get your attention. When I drove up to my office one...
