Category: CKW’s Blog

60/40 Almost a Winner – Case to always stay balanced.

At the end of 2019 a 60/40 portfolio may have been judged as too conservative. But true to form, a 60/40 portfolio is almost back to even as of the end of May 2020. Even if the S&P 500 is 200 points behind the start of the year, a simple rebalance at the end of...

Long Term vs Short Term

Do you believe Stocks will outperform Bonds over the next 5 years? Do you believe money you do not need for 3-5 years will outperform the 5 year Treasury at maturity (.5%)? Do you have money you do not need for 5 years in cash?   Did you also know: The S&P 500...

Keep Digging? Fancy Math Is Not WOrking.

Definitions of Fancy: Expensive, Exclusive, and Elaborate. And our Desires, Hopes, and Dreams of what ‘fancy’ will accomplish. Fancy math suggests lower risk and greater reward. Over the last 25 years (or rolling long term investment horizons of clients), old MPT...

Boomers – The Luckiest Generation

The Baby Boomer generation is most often defined as those individuals born between 1946 and 1964. The Vietnam War, recession, stagflation, oil crisis and double digit interest rates was the landscape as the double income households entered adulthood and the work...

Less Boomers, It’s Inevitable

Boomers. Roughly 25% of our population (30% at birth), born ~1946 – 1964. In my view, boomers are the luckiest generation ever (more in the next blog).  With a shrinking baby boomer population slow, growth of GDP, lower demand and declining value of boomer goods will...