To all retail investors, I have a question for you: What’s your investment window? In other words, how long do you typically hold your investments? Years? Weeks? Days? Hours? Are you a day trader ducking in and out of investments depending on the day or your mood? Or do you lock your money up for the […]
In the early days following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic on our shores and the ensuing social and economic lockdown, the economy went into a tailspin. The stock market plunged more than 30% in March, wiping out trillions of dollars of wealth, unemployment skyrocketed and the GDP dropped like no other time in […]
According to two recent surveys – one by UBS of family offices worldwide (average $1.1B in investable assets) and the other by high-net-worth social network Tiger 21 of its members (average of $100M in investable assets) – the ultra-rich have recently increased their allocations to an asset they have long favored in their portfolios. What is that asset? […]
Investing in a private company is very different from investing in a public company. Although public companies are required to disclose vital information about their company to the investing public through a prospectus, Main Street investors ignore these disclosures. That’s because most Main Street investors aren’t interested in the minute details about the […]
The wealthy zig when everyone else zags. That’s why they’re on Easy Street while everyone else is still on Main Street. Warren Buffett epitomized the wealthy’s mentality when he said: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” In other words, avoid the investments everyone else is flocking […]
One of the most famous former residents of Belize, (notorious if you ask some people), John McAfee, has been in the news lately regarding his once bold claim back in 2017 that Bitcoin would reach a price of $1 million. He famously wagered on Twitter that he would eat his own “unprintable body part” […]
Commercial real estate is a big draw for investors for two main reasons – cash flow and appreciation. When it comes to cash flow, in the public sector, income is distributed in the form of dividends with commercial real estate REITs representing the vast majority of dividend-paying stocks. In the private sector where the majority of private […]
There’s no escaping Covid-19. Every single facet of our lives has been impacted by it – financial, social, religious, political, etc. It should come as no surprise then that as people have been devastated financially and socially from the pandemic, that many of them should seek shelter – both financial and physical. From an economic […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has made people uncomfortable in more ways than one: The discomfort of home confinement. The discomfort of wearing masks in public. The discomfort of financial uncertainty. The financial uncertainty is what I would like to touch upon. Financial disasters tend to wreak havoc on people’s comfort levels. Many lose their jobs, many watch […]
They say a shock to the system like a plunge in an icy lake or ocean is good for the body. The shock resets reboots the body’s internal systems. That’s why many people who have taken the Polar Plunge in the middle of a Minnesota winter report feeling physically and mentally invigorated and feeling more […]
