Financially Speaking Blog
The Art of Assessing Risk Tolerance
August 14, 2013
Measuring risk of an investment is mathematical. Measuring the risk tolerance of a human is art and experience. The biggest challenge of selling investment advice is the determination of a client’s risk tolerance. Financial advisors..."No Hiding Place? Unpleasesent thought: If Bonds revert to trend, bondholders will get hammered."
July 5, 2013
One of the most profound business decisions I made for my practice was to ‘go paperless’. It took quite an investment in technology and cultural change to make that work, but the payoff has been worth it. Before that time I...Yogurt, Apples and Banana Splits
May 10, 2013
The first TCBY Yogurt store I ever saw was in a shopping center on Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock. It was on my way home after work and can remember the line of customers flowing out the front door and down the sidewalk. “What...Andy Hardy's Home Mortgage
February 26, 2013
For some reason I am fascinated by the way things used to be in contrast to how things are today. When was the last time you watched an Andy Hardy movie? Life in the 1940s seems so simple and less stressful. I don’t know for...The Perils of Extrapolation
February 7, 2013
Several years ago, I spoke to a group in Jonesboro on “Five Financial Mistakes Smart People Make”. One of the points I made was the mistake of extrapolating current trends into long-term trends. An example I gave related...Archives
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