July was ambitiously aiming for another month of stock market gains. Then POW! July 31st wiped out the entire month’s gains and then some. Stocks on U.S. exchanges lost almost 2% in one day, continuing downward the first few days of August. Well, what were you expecting? The stock market is up over 190% since…
We have officially removed airlines from our list of industries in which we would absolutely never invest. Years ago, I decided it was a dicey proposition to invest in airline stocks and vowed to avoid them. It was an industry that always seemed to figure out how to shoot itself in the foot, and I…
Since the stock market “bottom” of March 2009, the S&P 500 has climbed 169%, which translates to over 21% per year. Conventional wisdom would tell you that the stock market is overvalued and is due for a correction. But then conventional wisdom probably told you the same thing a year ago when the S&P 500…
On April 13, 2014, Mindy Corporon’s 14-year-old-son, Reat Griffin Lloyd Underwood, and her father, Dr. Bill Corporon, were at the wrong place for a split second. Dr. Corporon and Reat were in the Jewish Community Center’s parking lot before Reat’s audition for the Kansas City Superstar competition. A gunman ambushed them and they became the…
I attended the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Seattle earlier this month. It brings together CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charterholders from all over the world to hear what some of the industry’s most brilliant minds have to say. Last year’s conference was held in Singapore, and next year it will be in Frankfurt (Germany, not…
