Tag: Investment Management

Non-Profit Investing Essentials: Best Practices for Governance & Creating a Fiduciary Process

The job of a non-profit board can be demanding as board members are tasked with numerous responsibilities. They include, but are not limited, to the oversight of the organization’s financial sustainability, legal obligations, strategic initiatives, and fundraising, all in efforts to ultimately improve upon the organization’s mission and public standing. Therefore, for nonprofits with investible assets, the ongoing management and oversight of these assets is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. However, investing as a nonprofit comes with considerable fiduciary duties that must be adhered to.

By |2022-10-11T19:33:25+00:00October 11th, 2022|Blog, Investing, Non-Profit Organizations|Comments Off on Non-Profit Investing Essentials: Best Practices for Governance & Creating a Fiduciary Process

Quarterly Review – Second Quarter 2022

The confluence of global economic and geopolitical issues culminated into a particularly challenging environment for capital markets during the first half of 2022. Inflation, interest rates, and the growing threat of a recession, not to mention ongoing war in Ukraine, [...]

By |2022-08-03T16:40:37+00:00August 3rd, 2022|Quarterly Review|Comments Off on Quarterly Review – Second Quarter 2022

The Risk of Concentrated Stock vs. The Power of Diversification

"To the moon!” This has been the battle cry for speculative investors in recent years as they watched the vast array of cryptocurrency, meme stocks, and shares of fortune 500 companies continually push higher. However, in the frenzy to capitalize on the overly enthusiast market environment, many investors found themselves taking on increasing risk in one (or a handful) of individual stocks, coins, etc.

By |2022-08-10T15:16:16+00:00August 2nd, 2022|Blog, Investing|Comments Off on The Risk of Concentrated Stock vs. The Power of Diversification

Time for the Contrarian?

Robert Davis discusses the negative sentiment engulfing the equity markets today. Taking a contrarian view to the consensus has in the past provided opportunities for outsized returns.

By |2022-08-10T15:15:00+00:00June 27th, 2022|Blog, Investing|Comments Off on Time for the Contrarian?

Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2022

Capital markets retreated in the first quarter, not at an alarming rate, but certainly a deviation from the pattern of positive quarters investors have grown to appreciate. Of the last 50 quarters since the Great Financial Crisis, only 8 [...]

By |2022-05-03T18:22:15+00:00May 3rd, 2022|Quarterly Review|Comments Off on Quarterly Review – First Quarter 2022

Cash Balance Plans

A new concept is evolving in the pension world that combines both features of a traditional defined contribution and defined plan. A cash balance plan is sometimes referred to as a “hybrid” plan as it allows for the high contributions of a defined benefit plan, but with the look, feel and portability of a defined contribution plan.

By |2022-05-03T18:31:13+00:00May 3rd, 2022|Blog, Retirement Planning|Comments Off on Cash Balance Plans

Tangible assets are the physical things companies or individuals own that have monetary value

Portfolio Advisor Steven Saunders helped to define and explain Tangible Assets in the Personal Finance section of Business Insider. "Anything that you can hold or touch could be considered a tangible asset," Saunders said. Seeing [...]

By |2022-04-22T22:09:34+00:00March 22nd, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Tangible assets are the physical things companies or individuals own that have monetary value
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