by Eric Courage | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning, Investment
Is investing really all about timing? You wait for the right time: corrections, recessions, pull-backs, blow-ups, and inflection points. Then, BAM—you make hay, and get out. Do it again and again. That’s how investing works, right? Clichés like “time in...
by Eric Courage | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning, Return on Investment
Unmet expectations cause us distress. At times we lose perspective. When things are going well, we bask in the warm sunshine of +20% returns. But when it temporarily and inevitably floods worst-case -30% returns, we forget there are seasons. Return seasons. Sorry,...
by Eric Courage | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning
What really keeps people in poverty? Is it the same self-destructive patterns that hold us back, whether we’re poor, middle class, or wealthy? Are we all really not that different? Isn’t a foundation of wealth built and lost in the day-in-day-out decision making...
by Eric Courage | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly—as that a sentence must never end with a particle—and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think: “Any fool can make a rule, And any fool will mind it.”...
by Eric Courage | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning
So…What do you actually do for me? Before I launched MARGIN almost two years ago, an obsessive quest began: What were my peers really delivering to clients? Not just their marketed online services. Not just the lip service of their pitches. Not just their portfolio...
by Eric Courage | Sep 15, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning
Welcome back! I haven’t written you in a while, but I promise there’s a few good reasons: As you see, we’ve revamped our site! Check out our new complexity based flat- fee structure (for current clients, nothing is changing for now). We’ve also...
