Tag: Investment
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Buffett is Selling Apple. Should You?
In a report released May 4, 2024, Berkshire Hathaway revealed that it has sold about 115 million shares of Apple, for proceeds of about $20 billion. About a year ago, in June 2023, we observed that Apple shareholders had enjoyed a phenomenal run. At that time, about a year ago,…
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Record-High Gold Prices: Does Gold Belong in An Investment Portfolio?
Gold is trading at record highs, with spot prices exceeding $2250 per ounce as I write this. The chart above might lead you to wonder if you should be investing in gold. In this post, we address two related questions: We’ll first give you the answers, offer brief explanations, and…
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Time to Get Out of New York Real Estate?
The New York Supreme Court, in the person of Judge Arthur Engoron, has caused an earthquake in the New York real estate market. Investors don’t like risk, and they particularly don’t like political risk. To a great many observers, the trial which resulted in Engoron’s ruling, a trial which some…
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Why Doesn’t Your Client Act? 4 Factors to Guide Financial Decision-Making
Advisors can spend hours explaining a great solution to their clients, only to have those clients not act on the solution. There’s no magic bullet. But sometimes clients appreciate it when their advisor helps them identify what’s making the decision hard. What makes a decision difficult? Decision analysts have found…
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Are Your Clients Choosing to Pay $2.5 Million in Unnecessary Taxes?
Every week, we meet with advisors who have a client who is choosing to pay two and a half million in taxes that could be permanently and legally avoided. Before you say that none of your clients would ever make such a choice, you might want to see why we…
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Advisors Gain Assets Easily and Stand Out from the Competition
Many financial advisors work hard to grow, or to stand out in a crowded marketplace. A select few are discovering how to grow more easily, and stand out from the competition, by implementing a “blue ocean” strategy. Blue Ocean Strategy is the name of one of the most famous articles…
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Too Much Risk in US Farmland?
Investor money is pouring into US farmland.[1] That flood of investor money is helping to push farmland prices to record-high levels, and farmland investment yields (as opposed to crop yields) are being pushed to record low levels. For people who have owned farmland for a long time, these factors mean…
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What Would You Pay for an Extra Year of Life?
What would you give up for an extra year of life? Investors, economists, traders, and other people may immediately object that the question is under-specified. Time Preference At the minimum, they would insist on knowing when they get the extra year and the quality of the year. Let’s assume that…