by Eric Courage | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Financial Planning, Investment
Years ago, a client sent me an e-mail. It simply stated: “Us down, the market up, why?” Why am I underperforming the ubiquitous “market”? I blame financial media. Fox. CNBC. MSNBC. Barron’s. Bloomberg. Money. Forbes. Dave Ramsey. Suze Orman. All of ‘em, for...
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 9, 2018 | Blog, Wealth Management
“Most of us, however, are specialists…Each specialist sees something different. A typical Engineer will think in systems. A psychologist will think in terms of incentives. A biologist will think in terms of evolution. By putting these disciplines together in our...
by Eric Courage | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog, College, Financial Planning
“Dad, why is college going to cost me $160,000 when I’m older.” – My 10-year-old Is 4-years of college with a mortgage of debt the best path to equip our kids to be financially successful? An investment, or a hasty middle-class checkbox? I was...
by Eric Courage | Aug 12, 2018 | Blog, Financial Planning
“Here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony, now if you have one to the extreme, you will be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you will all of a sudden be a mechanical man, no longer a human being. It...
