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Learning from 2018

Learning from 2018

I have always stressed in good times and in bad (and last year certainly qualified as bad) that it is imperative to have a well-diversified portfolio including stocks, bonds, real estate and private equity/venture capital. This chart, which equally weights the 10...
SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER

SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER

SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER Spending time with one’s grandchildren is always special, but Christmas is something altogether different. Decorating the Christmas tree, making gingerbread cookies for Santa, the school Christmas pageant, and then finally, mercifully, the...
IT’S BETTER IN THE BAHAMAS

IT’S BETTER IN THE BAHAMAS

My wife, Christa, was recently asked to write a foreword to a beautiful book of photographs of one of the islands in the Bahamas. Why I wasn’t asked is a mystery to me. Nevertheless, she wrote a wonderful foreword which I have included below, as well as a picture of...
THANK THE EGYPTIANS

THANK THE EGYPTIANS

What do we have to thank the Egyptians for? Well, for one, the pyramids whose iconic shape has been used to explain many phenomena including the infamous pyramid scheme. However, it can be put to much better use as a tool for retirement planning. Using data from the...