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15 Nov

Needle in the Haystack

  • By Craig Smith, CFP®, CFA®, CKA®
  • In Blog
Needle in the Haystack Pop quiz! Question 1: Do stocks outperform one-month US Treasury Bills? Question 2: Are individual stocks likely to outperform one-month US Treasury Bills? You might say, Craig, those two questions are asking the same thing! And
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16 Sep

Elegant Simplicity

  • By Craig Smith, CFP®, CFA®, CKA®
  • In Blog
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Simplistic, Complex or Elegant Simplicity The world is a highly complex place. The interconnected, multifaceted world that we inhabit is both dumbfounding and inspiring at the same time. If you have a moment to read Leonard E. Read’s short essay
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15 Jul

A Lesson of History

  • By Craig Smith, CFP®, CFA®, CKA®
  • In Blog
A Lesson of History – Don’t Fall Victim to A Classic Blunder! As the year marches on, I’m up to Book Number 24. It happens to be Will Durant’s The Reformation: The Story of Civilization Part VI. The book, originally
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16 May

24,901

  • By Craig Smith, CFP®, CFA®, CKA®
  • In Blog
24,901 I think I’m just hardwired for activities that can be accomplished by being intentional, and plodding, over long periods of time. 26.2 miles – 2008 Portland Marathon. 968 miles – 2007 Oregon/Washington Pacific Crest Trail. 211 miles – 2014
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16 Feb

Confidence

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
  • In Blog
Confidence! Confidence is often our best friend in competition, sports, or being a businessman. When can confidence be a problem? When we’re investing! If our confidence in investing is centered on markets, this is troublesome. We will surely lose if
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16 Dec

Let’s Enjoy the Holiday Season

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
  • In Blog
Let’s enjoy the holiday season! Many people can only find joy by giving. Of course, some people think that the only joy they can find is from receiving! I believe joy comes from confidence. Confidence in our plan. Confidence in
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23 Jan

Emotion vs. Systematic…The battle of our nation!

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
  • In Uncategorized
Who will win in your life? Will you become a statistic that the majority of people in the richest country in the world retire with less than $50,000 in the bank? Success…… is that created from emotion. When we are emotional
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09 Jan

Will this be the beginning or the end?

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
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It is interesting where you learn something.  I was sitting in a meeting, bored, tired and only half listening when the speaker said how the word ought is the most useless word in the English language.  That got my mind
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29 Jan

4 Requirements to Live Successfully

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
  • In Planning, Retirement, Self-Help
The world is made up of decisions. When we wake, what we eat, how we spend our time…everything is a decision. How do we make decisions? Are they thoughtful and planned or made reactively based on instinct, feelings, and bad
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02 Jan

Resolutions?

  • By Wayne von Borstel CFP®, CKA®, MSFS, ChFC®, CLU®
  • In Budget, Live Your Best Life, Personal Finance
  It’s that time of year again. When we focus on doing something in the short-term in hopes it will make a significant difference in the long-term. What are your New Year’s resolutions? For many of us it’s to lose
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