by RCD-DEV | Jun 9, 2014 | Finance
Financial Somebody In recent weeks, I have spent several hours of drive time traveling to conferences in Dallas and Nashville. I passed my time listening to Sirius radio, which has more stations than any human needs. On two or three different stations, I heard an...
by RCD-DEV | May 9, 2014 | Finance
51 Recent tensions between Russia and Ukraine have once again brought fears of a market calamity to investors. In part that fear is fueled by the financial commentators on television who use the event to get you to listen to their shows. They make everything worse by...
by RCD-DEV | Mar 17, 2014 | Finance
Headwinds Several years ago the Boston Globe invited me to make a presentation at an annual public event. I thought it was a good time to take my family on a visit to the Boston area. But March weather in Boston is very different than Arkansas March weather. After...
by RCD-DEV | Feb 17, 2014 | Finance
Yellen Yellen’yellnn : verb 1.Southern for something Momma did a lot of when I didn’t do right 2. The first chairwoman in the history of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors of the United States of America. Janet L. Yellen is a wife, mother, economist and stamp...
by RCD-DEV | Nov 11, 2013 | Finance
The Imaginary Line When I am interviewed by a potential new client, we talk about how I make decisions, think and work. During the discussion, I always talk about The Imaginary Line. I explain that there is this imaginary line, and on one side is the financial...
by RCD-DEV | Aug 14, 2013 | Finance
The Art Of Assessing Risk Tolerance 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...
