
Dear Mr. Market
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Thoughts regarding the stock market, investing, and the economy from My Portfolio Guide, LLC. Mission is to provide clients with Unwavering Ethics, Superior Discipline and Unsurpassed Value.
Dear Mr. Market
3w ago
What are microreactors and will they change how you should invest in the energy space ..read more
Dear Mr. Market
1M ago
Did you know that writing down your New Years resolutions increase your chance of accomplishing them by 42%? Here's our top 10 financial goals we recommend for 2025 ..read more
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2M ago
As a financial planner advising clients, I am wired and trained to encourage saving, planning, accumulation etc, but not experiences or truly impacting those we can while still healthy and cognizant. Here we review the book, Die with Zero, and hope it changes your own personal mindset as well ..read more
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3M ago
Do you have a living trust and if so, is it an AB Trust? Learn why that may be potentially outdated and could be doing you more harm than good ..read more
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6M ago
Dear Mr. Market: Budgeting apps play a vital role in helping us keep track of our spending, save for future goals, and maintain control over our financial health. With the retirement of Mint, many are left wondering which tool to ..read more
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6M ago
Dear Mr. Market: Ah, Mr. Market, you’ve never been one for subtlety, have you? We’ve all grown accustomed to your erratic behavior, but these past few weeks, you’ve outdone yourself. The dizzying heights we’ve climbed recently have turned into a ..read more
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11M ago
Dear Mr. Market:
If your alma mater or favorite college team did not make the tournament on Selection Sunday, we’ve got another option for you!
Even if you don’t like or follow college basketball, we think you’ll enjoy what we pioneered and have put together.
My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. We break down and assign each of the four “regions” with an asset class and then pick teams (stocks) that we think have the best chance at doing well relative to others ..read more
Dear Mr. Market
1y ago
Dear Mr. Market:
If you’re watching an NBA basketball game and you have one player to take a final shot to win the game, who do you choose? Like him or not the guy who has scored the second most points in the history of basketball is LeBron James and he has made 50.5% of all shots he’s ever taken. Let’s switch sports to much worse odds, like baseball, where the average hitter is around .250 for a batting average. Even the best the game has ever seen was the great Ty Cobb who hit .366 for his career. Speaking of winning or losing, the mecca of odds making is in Las Vegas of course, and if you ..read more
Dear Mr. Market
1y ago
Dear Mr. Market:
Can you imagine how you would be feeling if you had acted upon the advice from all the doom and gloomers the past year? How some of these financial “gurus” and economic pundits still have an audience is fascinating!?! Want to know why they still have a platform and hold many people’s attention?
Fear sells.
That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Normally we don’t run victory laps or spend any time patting ourselves on the back, but this year we’re going to be blunt. We’re going to remind people that if you listened to everyone and followed all the fearmongers your portfolio wo ..read more
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1y ago
Dear Mr. Market:
The stock market is made up of thousands of choices and one easy way to gain exposure to it is via mutual funds. While we don’t want to broad brush the topic, we’re going to get right into it and explain 100 reasons why you or your financial advisor should not be using mutual funds versus ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds).
Costs/Expenses: ETFs typically have lower expense ratios compared to mutual funds. This is because ETFs are passively managed and aim to replicate the performance of an underlying index, reducing the need for active management and associated costs.
Tax Efficien ..read more