BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Tis the time of year when prognosticators and pundits step forward and make all sorts of predictions and forecasts regarding the economy and markets for the coming year. While there is certainly nothing wrong with expressing your opinion or views, after all I’m doing it here […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Stay Calm and Carry On is my message to investors. While the recent bout of volatility is highly unpleasant and stomach churning, it is also approaching the irrational and is largely unfounded. First and foremost, our view is that while the Ebola outbreak is serious, it […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Pick a financial source, be it this column or your favorite financial website or any of the financial programs on television (they won’t let me mention names of the peacocks, foxes or former mayors). All of these have at least two things in common – they […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Frustrated with your Variable Annuity? Follow Warren Buffet’s lead: Warren Buffet is probably the most revered investors of our time and one of his favorite types of businesses are Insurance Companies. This got me thinking. My firm, Gary Goldberg Financial Services, has become known for its […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services So far, just about everyone has been wrong regarding interest rates. Just about everyone thought that once the Fed started tapering, yields would rise and bond values would fall. Yet, here we are, half way through tapering, and the yield of the Ten Year Treasury is […]
BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama, acclaimed economist stated, “Money is like soap, the more you handle it the less you will have.” This statement was made to clearly illustrate that investor’s intuition and actions often prove counter-productive. The same point has also been made by legendary investors […]