Breaking Down Bonds

With the stock market grabbing all the exciting headlines, you could conclude that the bond market is simple and inconsequential. At first glance, bond investing seems easy: you buy a bond, receive periodic interest payments, and get your money back at maturity. Piece of cake, right? Not really. The bond market is far more complex…

ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. NOT.

One of the things we’ve learned in our business is that when virtually the entire investment world is absolutely, positively sure something is going to occur, not only does it NOT occur but the opposite usually does. Occasionally these are called “bubbles,” like the tech-stock bubble when everyone was convinced tech stocks would only go…

BCWM Expands Ownership

Boyer Corporon Wealth Management, LLC (BCWM) announces that Cindy Wysong, CFP®, and Cory Bloodgood, CFA, have joined the firm's ownership group. With their addition, BCWM is now a team of seven owners, thus providing the company with a solid foundation that will allow it to continue to grow and expand. Founded in 2007, the personal wealth and…

The Risk of Looking Wrong

Our business is an interesting one. Every day we have to decide how to get the best potential return with the least amount of risk. It’s a business that requires us to peer into the future and attempt to determine the risks, based upon market levels, historical performance outcomes, and geo-political possibilities.

Learning the Hard Way

There’s an old joke we like to repeat from time to time. It goes like this: “How do you make a 33 year-old guy act like a 43 year-old guy?”  The answer?  “Wait ten years.” It’s not the kind of joke that elicits huge belly laughs, but delivered at the proper moment and in the…