Investor Patience

Investor Patience as a Quality Attribute The performance of hot stocks like NVIDIA, Palantir, Coinbase, and Robinhood make investors envious.  Shares bought in the past year have seen tremendous gains in these and other high growth companies.  The short-term market losses in these companies from April of this year or during most of 2022 were… Read More »

Dividends for All

100$ Cash Present in a Person's Jeans in Bedford, NH

Waiting to take off on a flight back to New Hampshire after meeting clients in Florida recently, I had time to reflect on my client visits in the Sunshine State. Among the people I visited were a successful third generation business owner in his thirties, a retiree in his seventies, a business owner in her… Read More »

Money Is the Easy Part

A Woman Cycling on the Sunset View in Bedford, NH

Health and wealth are interconnected, and an imbalance in one can cause problems with the other. Chronic health problems can be very expensive, leading to erosion of wealth while poor financial decisions can lead to undue stress which can cause a decline in health.  However, the money decisions made over a thirty- or forty-year career… Read More »

Manage Your Career Like a Rock Star

Long-Term Financial Investment Growth Like a Rockstar in Bedford, NH

Do you want to enjoy life more and for longer? I was recently struck by a couple of high-profile examples of super successful people in their 70s and 80s working hard and loving it! This summer, my wife, two of my teenage kids, and I went to Foxborough, MA for a Rolling Stones concert. The… Read More »

Artificial Intelligence and Real Profits

While walking my dog Max this morning, I thought of the idea for this article and decided to ask ChatGPT some questions.  Immediately, I got back useful information to write the article after our walk. Before writing this article, I had access to the free version of ChatGPT but due to the content limitation, I… Read More »

How Often Should You Rebalance Your 401(k)?

White piggy bank for balancing 401(k) finance in Bedford, NH

Introduction to Rebalancing your 401(k) A 401(k) plan is a powerful tool for saving for retirement, allowing employees to contribute a portion of their income to a tax-advantaged investment account. As such it represents an important part of your overall financial and investment planning. As markets fluctuate, so does the composition of your 401(k) investments.… Read More »

Venture Capital Investing from the Comfort of Dividend Paying Stocks

Light bulb symbolizing a financial idea in Bedford, NH.

Among the best ways to build wealth is to own a business. Great fortunes have been built seemingly overnight and there are lots of young millionaire- and billionaire-owners of these businesses.  However, for every success story there are countless failures that never get noticed. Developing a new product or starting a business can cost a… Read More »

Surviving a Bear Market

Digital screen representing a value of stock in Bedford, NH

Throughout my money management career spanning nearly thirty years, I have experienced bear markets, on average every five years.  A bear market is defined as a correction of 20% or more. My experience managing money for my family and clients all this time closely matches the historical record of a bear market occurring every five… Read More »