Equifax Hack… What Should You Do?

By now you have likely heard about the cybersecurity breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s three major credit reporting agencies, in which 143 million American consumers’ personal information was compromised. This data breach does not directly affect your accounts managed by Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management (BCWM).  However, your personal and virtual safety is…

Sean Easterly Joins Select Ranks in Financial Planning Field

Sean Easterly, Wealth Advisor with Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management (BCWM), is now the fifth member of the firm (alongside Eric Clark, Cindy Wysong, Richard Boyer, and Laura Carley) to become a Certified Financial Planner professional, thus earning him the right to use the CFP® designation. Why does this matter? Because the Certified Financial Planner™…

Don’t Mess with Texas (or Florida)

It is a relief to hear that all of the friends, family, and clients of Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management who live in Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean weathered both hurricanes successfully. If there is anything good that can be taken from storms that cause over $200 billion in damage, it is the anecdotal stories…

Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Quieter

The silence is almost deafening. Navigating the quiet markets is like being in a library. (Remember those places you used to go to find books before you could buy them online for $8.00?) We’ve alluded to the Volatility Index (VIX) in past Investment Commentaries. The VIX, which is derived from a complicated formula, measures the…

Energy Independence

Recently, we attended a couple of industry conferences… conferences loaded with “knowledgeable experts” who somehow manage to disagree with each other from time to time. Disagreements aside, we came away with several nuggets that we feel will help us negotiate the securities markets today. Here are several of them: Our long-held view that interest rates…